Setting an Out of Office Message for a Shared Mailbox

Dan Sayle
Dan Sayle
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Setting an Out of Office response on a shared mailbox can only be done in the web version of Outlook. You can follow these steps to setup an Out of Office response on the shared mailbox:

  1. Login to Outlook on the Web (outlook.office.com) with your CRSid and University password
  2. Open the shared mailbox, to do this you can click on your profile picture (or initials if you don't have a picture) at the top-right corner of the screen
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  3. Select Open another mailbox and in the prompt enter the email address/name of the shared mailbox. This will open the shared mailbox in a new tab or window
  4. In the shared mailbox tab, click on Settings (gear icon) in the top right corner
  5. In the settings pop-up, go to Mail > Automatic replies
  6. Toggle Turn on automatic replies to on, and set up the messaging you wish to use.

You will also be able to turn off automatic replies to a shared mailbox in the same method, just change step 6 to toggle Turn on automatic replies to off.