Automated Vacation Messages
Set a vacation message on the voicemail system 
- Enter your voicemail box normally via x5050, with your password
- If calling from off campus
- Dial (315) 229-5050
- Push #
- Enter your mailbox number (same as your extension)
- Enter your password
- Press 4 – personal options
- Press 3 – greetings
- Press 2 – extended absence greeting
- Follow the directions to record your extended absence greeting
- The new greeting will temporarily replace your regular outgoing greeting (it will not erase it from the system)
To check your messages while away:
- Enter your voicemail box normally via x5050, with your password
- If calling from off campus
- Dial (315) 229-5050
- Push #
- Enter your mailbox number (same as your extension)
- Enter your password
- Push #1 to retain extended absence greeting
- The system will then check and play your messages normally
When you return from vacation (deleting the vacation greeting):
- Enter your voicemail box normally via x5050, with your password
- If calling from off campus
- Dial (315) 229-5050
- Push #
- Enter your mailbox number (same as your extension)
- Enter your password
- The system will notify you have you currently have an extended absence greeting, push #2 to delete it
- Your previous outgoing message will return normally
Set automatic vacation reply for e-mail
- Go to MyMail.
- Enter your network username and password.
- On the left-hand menu, click the plus sign next to Mail.
- Click the Filters link.
- Click the Vacation button along the top of the page.
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Enter your SLU email address(es) in the My email Addresses: box (one each on one line).
For example:
jdoz@stlawu.edu
jdozer@stlawu.edu
Some people may have multiple aliases, if you are unsure contact the HelpDesk.
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*optional - In the Addresses to not send responses to: box enter any addresses you do not
want a vacation message sent to. For example, friends or colleagues who know you will be away.
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*optional - Click the Do not send responses to bulk or list messages box to not send auto-reply messages
to large mailings.
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Enter the number of days to wait before sending an autoresponse to an address that has already received one.
- Enter the subject of your auto-reply message in the Subject of vacation message: box.
- Enter the body of your auto-reply message in the Reason: box.
- Hit the Save button.
- To activate the vacation message:
- Click the Filters button along the top of the page.
- Next to Vacation link, click disabled - click to enable or the X under the
Enabled column.
- A check mark should now appear under the Enabled column that applies to the Vacation filter rule.
- Click Logout along the top of the screen.
- When you return from vacation
- Return to this screen
- Click the check mark under the enabled column beside the Vacation link.
- A red X should now appear under the Enabled column that applies to the Vacation filter rule.
- Remember to test your vacation message by sending yourself a message!
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