How to Create an Automatic Out-of-Office Message with a Filter in Roundcube

You can use Roundcube’s filters to automatically reply with an out-of-office message to all e-mails sent to your e-mail address.

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Prerequisites

Enter the following address in your web browser: https://mg.n0c.com/en/.

Connect to Roundcube by following the instructions in How to Open a Roundcube Email.

How to Create an Absence Message in Roundcube

1. Click on the Parameters icon.
2. Choose Filters:

3. Click on the Create button:

4. Please fill in the required information:

• Name your absence filter in the Filter name field.
• Filter enabled must be activated.
• Choose all messages in the Scope drop-down list.
• Choose Reply with message in the Actions drop-down list.
• Fill in the Message body (vacation reason): field.
• Enter the Message subject: (for example, “out of the office”, “vacation”, etc.).
• Enter the Reply sender address:. This is the e-mail address that will be displayed to identify the sender of the out-of-office reply.
• Fill in the My e-mail addresses: field. This is used to indicate for which e-mails you wish the absence message to be displayed automatically.
• Enter 1 in the How often send messages: field.

5. Click on the Save button.
6. Your absence filter will appear under Filters:

7. It is a good idea to test this by sending an e-mail to yourself:

Conclusion

In this article, we have looked at how to create an out-of-office message using Roundcube filters.

Generally speaking, filters of this kind can be used to perform multiple operations to optimize your messaging.