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turn off out of office or automatic email response

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Hi There, I set up my out of office a year ago when I went on maternity leave and now I can not figure out how to turn it off. I have a feeling that I did not do this the conventional way and there must be more than one way to set one of these up. If you have any ideas of how to shut off the automatic email that is sent out to ever person who emails me, please let me know. Thank you, Angela

Hi There, I set up my out of office a year ago when I went on maternity leave and now I can not figure out how to turn it off. I have a feeling that I did not do this the conventional way and there must be more than one way to set one of these up. If you have any ideas of how to shut off the automatic email that is sent out to ever person who emails me, please let me know. Thank you, Angela

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Out of Office responses are best set up in the webmail account which you access using a browser. So check there first.

If you set it up in Thunderbird, then you would have had to leave Computer on and Thunderbird running connected to internet all the time. You would have created a template email to use. This would be in the 'Templates' folder. You would also have set up a Message Filter to respond to emails in address book using the Template email. So check in Message filters for a filter that does this. Tools > Message filters or Menu icon > Message filters > Message filters

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Out of Office responses are best set up in the webmail account which you access using a browser. So check there first.

If you set it up in Thunderbird, then you would have had to leave Computer on and Thunderbird running connected to internet all the time. You would have created a template email to use. This would be in the 'Templates' folder. You would also have set up a Message Filter to respond to emails in address book using the Template email. So check in Message filters for a filter that does this. Tools > Message filters or Menu icon > Message filters > Message filters