Daily Out of Office Hours Autoresponder

[ridgedale]

Hi,

Could someone please advise how to set up a daily out of office hours autoresponder?
Effectively, the autoresponder needs to kick in between the hours of 5:00pm and 9:00am each day.
The cPanel documentation does not appear to cover this and web searches reveal no helpful information.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ServerHealers]

This isn't natively available in cPanel, however, I see there is a feature request exists for similar option so I'd vote on it to consider this in a future release -

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/ability-to-add-sheduled-recurring-auto-responders

Meantime, you may be able to set it up using cPanel APIs and Crontab and here are some API docs which could be useful here:

Create email account's autoresponder

This function creates an autoresponder for an email account. **Important:** When you disable the [*Receive Mail* role](https://go.cpanel.net/serverroles), the system **disables** this function.

api.docs.cpanel.net

Delete email account's autoresponder

This function deletes an autoresponder. **Important:** When you disable the [*Receive Mail* role](https://go.cpanel.net/serverroles#roles), the system **disables** this function.

api.docs.cpanel.net

 

[cPRex]

I see that feature request is old, but I'll bring it up with the team next week so we can get some fresh eyes on it.

 

[ridgedale]

Thanks for the feedback and guides, ServerHealers. Much appreciated.
Thanks also for the update, cPRex.

 

[ServerHealers]

Happy to assist/advise always