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Vacation Messages are also called "away messages" or "auto-reply message". You can set a vacation message that automatically replies to people who send you messages when you are out of the office for an extended period of time or anytime you want to automatically communicate with folks who email you (for example, if you've got a backlog of 500 email messages, you might want to tell people that).
You can set the Vacation message to start and end automatically. The message you write is sent to each recipient only once, regardless of how many messages that person sends you during the designated period.
A Note About Aliases and Forwards: You can't set up an auto-responder on an alias, only on your 'real' address. If you set up a vacation message on your real address, it will also reply to any message sent to your alias, which means if you want to disable the vacation message, you have to do it through your real address. If your email address is johnsmith@brandeis.edu and you've set up an alias of jsmith@brandeis.edu, someone who sends email to jsmith@brandeis.edu will get an auto-reply if you have one enabled. There's no way to set up an auto-responder for an alias without setting it up for your base address, and a vacation message will respond to all aliases associated with a given address.
Login to your Bmail account.
Click the Preferences tab.
Click the Mail tab.
In the Receiving Messages section, checkSend auto-reply message.
In the text box, enter the message to be sent, such as "I am currently out of the office and am checking voice mail but not email. I will return on August 1, 2007."
Set the start and end dates for using this message. If you don't set the start or end dates, the message is enabled as soon as you click on Save and will be sent until you manually shut the function off.
Click Save (upper lefthand corner of the window). The away message feature will be enabled on the start date you have selected and automatically disabled on the end date you have specified.
You can set a vacation message that automatically replies to people who send you messages when you are out of the office for an extended period of time. That message is sent to each recipient only once, regardless of how many messages that person sends you during the designated vacation period. Use the Start Date and End Date fields to set the duration you would like to enable this feature.
This feature can be enabled through the Bmail web interface
