EMail Setup

You may configure what happens to your incoming email when it arrives at the mailserver:

• If you activate the "vacation" facility the mail server will automatically reply to incoming messages to inform the sender that you are away from office.
  The mechanism keeps track to whom it already sent a message. Vacation replies are only sent once per week per sender. So don't be surprised if it seems to work only once when testing it.
  Messages are not sent to (correctly configured) mailing lists.
• In addition (or instead) you may forward all incoming emails to another person, or only mails from certain senders or only mails with a specified keyword in the subject.
• By common request it is also possible to delete incoming emails when they exceed a configurable "spamynes" as soon as they arrive. These mails will be dropped without notice and there is no way to recover them.
  We do not recommend to use this feature.

Please note: If you already use a personal .forward file for other purposes (what we don't recommend) it will be destroyed by modifying your mail setup.

Reducing Spam by Greylisting

The amount of spam can be much reduced by enabling "Greylisting" for your account. If enabled, every mail from an unknown sender will be rejected with a temporary failure code. For legitimate mail, the sender's mailserver will retry after a few minutes and we will then accept the message. Future mails from the same sender will be accepted without delay.
On the other hand the spam senders' software usually doesn't bother to retry a temporarily failed delivery attempt.
In rare cases the greylisting mechanism may fail with legitimate mail. To enable greylisting for your account please proceed to the userspace.