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How to Setup Vacation Settings or Email Forwarding for Rice Email
This document details vacation settings for faculty, staff, and graduate students for email (using Cyrus mail servers). Also how to setup email forwarding.
Step 1: Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students: log into your WebTools to manage your vacation settings at https://ricemail.rice.edu/. Once logged in; select WebSieve.
Step 2: This will take you to SmartSieve (also known as WebSieve) where you will be prompted for you NetID and Password.
Step 3: Once logged in, click on the Vacation Settings icon.
Step 4: Enter "Vacation Settings:". Edit the vacation message. Click the "Save Changes". This rule is disabled by default. To enable, click the "Enabled" butoon.
Step 5: This rule is enabled when you see the green checkmark .
Step 6: Log out if you have completed SmartSieve processes.
