Set an away message for your Zimbra mail account

by admin on February 9, 2011

Last updated February 10, 2011

  1. Browse to https://zimbra.ccs.neu.edu/ and login with your CCIS credentials.
  2. Click “Preferences” (far right of the row of tabs near the top that read “Mail, Address Book, Calendar, …”).
  3. Click the “Mail” sub-tab (under Preferences, not the top level Mail tab).
  4. Scroll down to “Receiving Messages”.
  5. Click the check box next to “Send auto-reply message” and fill in the reply you would like sent.
  6. Optional, (must be turned on with checkboxes) Enter the start and end dates for when you would like the message to be sent
  7. Click the “Save” button near the top left, between the “Preferences” row of tabs and the “General, Mail, …” row of sub-tabs.

Note those instructions require that you browse Zimbra with a Javascript capable browser (with Javascript enabled for zimbra.ccs.neu.edu).

Zimbra also has an html-only interface, which is almost identical in layout to the standard (Javascript-enabled) version, but the location of some buttons/tabs may be slightly off.