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How to Set Up an Out of Office Auto-Reply in GMX Mail

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When you're a good ways away from reading, answering and sorting your mail, you're nowhere near GMX Mail either, are you? GMX Mail is right at the estuary, though, of all the emails coming in — and it can be the source of replies to, automated answers you've set up to be sent.

Set Up an Out of Office Auto-Reply in GMX Mail

To set up an autoresponder to answer emails on your behalf in GMX Mail:

  • Select Settings in GMX Mail.
  • Go to the E-Mail tab.
  • Open the Autoresponder category.
  • Type the text for your automatic reply under Active Autoresponders.
    • Include, perhaps, information on when people mailing you in your absence can expect a personal answer — or if you'd prefer them to mail you again once you've returned.
    • GMX Mail will precede the original message's subject with "Auto reply" when sending an automated response.
    • The original message's text will not be quoted in the auto-reply.
  • Make sure Always is selected for an auto-respnder that does not end automatically; make sure Expires: is chosen if you want GMX Mail to stop sending auto-replies after the specified date.
    • Pick Never to turn off your auto-responder (expiring or perpetual) immediately.
  • Click OK.

(Updated September 2011)

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