Setting up a vacation message

The Squirrelmail application for webmail at NetCoop.nl allows you to set up automatic replies to messages arriving at your account. This feature is mostly used for letting people know that you will not be able to answer your mail for a certain period. Squirrelmail remembers who has already received a vacation message and will not send the vacation message again within a chosen number of days.

Follow these instructions to set up a vacation message for your account. Here's the brief version (detailed instructions below):

  1. login to your webmail
  2. chose 'filters'
  3. click 'add new rule'
  4. select 'All messages' and click 'Move on to step 2 >>'
  5. select 'Vacation message' and in the box 'Addresses: Only reply if sent to these addresses:' you type the address (or addresses, separated by commas) for which you want to enable this. Filling in the addresses is necessary!
  6. change the message to your wishes
  7. click 'move on' at the bottom of the page
  8. click 'Finished'
  9. finally, click 'Save Changes' and you're done.

Remove a vacation message

  1. after logging in to your webmail, click 'filters'
  2. select the filter rule(s) you want to remove and click 'Delete Selected'
  3. click 'Save Changes'

Detailed instructions:

1. login to your webmail

First log in to your webmail account (follow the webmail link at www.netcoop.nl or click here). Make sure you use your complete username, including the domainname separated by dots! (username.domain.org):

2. chose 'filters'

3. click 'add new rule'

4. select 'All messages' and 'Move on to step 2 >>'

5. select 'Vacation message'

In the next screen you select 'Vacation message'.

In the box 'Addresses: Only reply if sent to these addresses:' you type your email address (yourname@domain.org).

(without filling in the address the vacation message won't work!)

6. change the message to your wishes

If you want to enable the vacation message for more addresses at this account (different email aliases), then you have to fill in those addresses as well. The addresses are separated by commas:

7. click 'move on' at the bottom of the page

8. click 'Finished'

9. finally, click 'Save Changes'

... and you're done!

Remove a vacation message

  1. after logging in to your webmail, click 'filters'
  2. select the filter rule(s) you want to remove and click 'Delete Selected'
  3. click 'Save Changes'