Auto-Reply and Forwarding
Answer mail automatically while you are away, or pass incoming mail to another address.
Out of Office Auto-Reply
Open Settings → Out of Office Auto-Reply. The reply is sent by the server as each message arrives, so it works while you are away from every device.
- Subject and Body: what the sender receives. Keep the body short and do not include details you would not tell a stranger; auto-replies go to anyone who writes, including spammers who then know the address is live.
- Start time and End time: the reply is active only between these dates. Leave them blank to control it with the Status switch alone.
- Status: On or Off. Turning it off keeps your text for next time.
Advanced settings
- My e-mail addresses: the reply is only sent for mail addressed to the listed addresses. Add your aliases here if you want them answered too, or click Fill with all my addresses; leave an alias out to keep it silent.
- Reply interval: how long before the same sender is answered again. One reply per sender per interval, so a correspondent who writes five times in a week gets one notice, not five.
- Reply sender address: which of your identities the reply comes from.
- Incoming message action: what happens to the original. Keep (normal delivery), Discard, Redirect to another address, or Send copy to another address while keeping the original.
Mail that the server rejects outright, because of your block list or the spam filter, never reaches the auto-reply.
Forwarding
Open Settings → Forwarding. It appears on plans that include forwarding.
- Send copy to: deliver the message to your CodaMail mailbox as usual and also send a copy to the address you enter.
- Redirect to: send the message on to the other address and do not keep it here. Use this only if you really do not want a copy in CodaMail.
- Status: On or Off, so you can pause forwarding without re-entering the address.
Forwarding is a server-side rule, like the auto-reply and your delivery filters, so it runs whether or not you are logged in. Forwarded mail leaves CodaMail's protection the moment it arrives at the other provider, so the privacy of a forwarded message is the privacy of its destination. For finer control, for example forwarding only mail to one alias or from one sender, build a filter with the Redirect message to or Send message copy to action in Mail Delivery Filters.