Managing Your Email Account

When managing your email account, see the following topics:

Setting Up a Vacation Message

Use a vacation message (sometimes called an out-of-office message) to let email senders know that you are away. A vacation message usually contains information about how long you are away and who to contact in your absence. When you turn on your vacation message, Convergence automatically responds to incoming email with the vacation message you prepared.

To set up a vacation message:

  1. From the sidebar, select Options.

  2. In the Options section, expand Mail, and then expand Local Account, and then select Vacation Message.

    The Mail Options - Vacation Message Page appears.

  3. Select the Enable auto-reply option.

    Convergence automatically responds to incoming email for as long as this option is enabled.

  4. Specify the duration of your absence.

  5. Specify how often Convergence responds to the same sender while you are away.

  6. Compose your vacation message.

    You can compose different messages for personal contacts and for contacts from your corporate address book.

  7. Select Save Preferences.

Creating an Email Signature

You can create a signature that is automatically added to the email you compose.

To create an email signature:

  1. From the sidebar, select Options.

  2. In the Options section, expand Mail and then expand Identities, and then select Local Account.

    The Mail Options - Local Account Page appears.

  3. In the Signature section, compose your signature.

    Use the formatting icons to format your signature.

    Tip:

    If you create your signature by copying content from another program or from the Internet, paste the content as plain text and reformat it using the formatting icons. If you do not, you might be pasting unintended formatting.
  4. Select the Add the signature to every message you compose check box.

  5. (Optional) To have your signature inserted before quoted text in email you forward or reply to, select the Insert the signature before the quoted text. By default, your signature is inserted at the bottom of the email you compose.

  6. Select Save Preferences.

Setting Up Your Account Identity

To set up your account identity:

  1. From the sidebar, select Options.

  2. In the Options section, expand Mail and then expand Identities, and then select Local Account.

    The Mail Options - Local Account Page appears.

  3. In the vCard section, enter as much information as you want. The various fields and options are labeled to identify the type of information you are meant to provide.

  4. (Optional) To attach a vCard to the email you compose, select Add the vCard to every message you compose.