Out of Office messages

Setting up an Out of Office message is handled differently in readingLive to how it has previously been managed in webmail.

Important!

IT Services are unable to migrate existing Out of Office messages from www.mailopts.reading.ac.uk

To access this service from within readingLive:

1. Click Options
2. Select Tell people you're on vacation from the Heading out? section on the right
3. Select Send automatic replies
4. You can send Out of Office replies to messages sent by other University of Reading students or staff (who are "inside my organisation") or to messages received from elsewhere (who are "outside my organisation") and you can have different messages for the two groups.
5. Enter the text that you wish to send automatically into the two text boxes (one for senders "inside my organisation" and one for senders "outside my organisation").
6. Click on Save

If you have a problem with Out of Office messages, please contact ITS-Help@reading.ac.uk and we will investigate further.