It's called autoresponder and you'll find it along with Forwarding in the Options of the older webmail - or under Filtering and Spam Control on the newer webmail.

On Jun 20, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Wayne Gregor wrote:

Is there anyway to create an out of office reply for surgemail?

Thanks

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