If you are going for a holiday or will be unavailable for few days or a month, you can create an auto e-mail responder for your e-mails so that when people email you, they will receive an automated e-mail with your message like “I am on a holiday, please e-mail me in a few days’ time”.
Steps to create an E-mail Autoresponder when you are unavailable or on vacation
Open the relevant account or settings
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Log into your cPanel account.
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In the “Mail” section, click on the “Autoresponder” Icon.
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On the “Autoresponders” page, click on the “Add Autoresponder” Button.
Complete the next part of the process
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In the Interval field, specify the number of hours you wish the autoresponder to wait between responses to the same e-mail address.
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In the Email field enter your email address on which you want to enable autoresponder. If you want to enable auto responder on [email protected], enter “support” (without the quotes) in the e-mail field and should you have multiple domains, select the appropriate domain from the dropdown list.
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In the From field, enter the name that the auto-response will be from.
Finish the setup and confirm the result
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In the subject field enter your e-mail subject like “I am on vacation“, etc.
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Select the start and stop time of your autoresponder.
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Click on the Create/Modify Button.
How to remove Autoresponder
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Open Autoresponder.
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You should see your autoresponder email list under “Current Autoresponder“.
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Next to autoresponder, click on “Delete” Autoresponder.
