Email Vacation Message
While you are away from your Wheaton College email account you can have an auto-response sent back to people that send you an email. Please follow the instructions below that outline how to enable or disable this feature.
- To begin, log into Webmail using your Wheaton College wID (located on the front of your ID card) along with your email password.
- Once you are logged in successfully, select the Automated Processing link under the Misc heading on the left.
- Under the title labeled Vacation Message, enter in the response you would like sent back to people who email you while you are out.
- Once your message is complete, place a check mark next to the Vacation Message heading then select the Apply button, then select the Clear List button. The system will only send one response to each person that sends you an email.
- Special Note to people who have automated processing rules setup within their Webmail account!!!! If you created your own filtering rules on the Automated Processing page within Webmail they can interfere with the vacation response! Any custom rules you create will have a default priority of 5. The vacation message is just like any other rule you can create but by default it has a lower priority of 2. If you have a custom rule (ex: Move Messages From Friends) which takes inbound messages from your friends and moves them out of the Inbox into a separate folder, the vacation rule will never see the message because it has a lower priority. There are two ways you can get around this issue. You can either set all of your own custom rules to have a priority of 1 (so the vacation message with a higher priority of 2 gets activated first) or.... you can set the priority of your custom rules to Inactive while you are away on vacation.
To disable your vacation message do the following.
- Clear out the vacation message text
- Uncheck the box next to the Vacation Message title
- Select the Apply button located on the right
- Press the button labeled Clear List'