How to set out of office in Mozilla Thunderbird?

How to set up an out of office reply message in Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is basically an open source as well as a free email service and news client. User's of Mozilla Thunderbird are million in numbers and are using it for their emailing purpose. This email domain is developed by Mozilla and because of Mozilla’s credibility this email service is the most utilized one in some of the various places in the world. This email domain needs to be downloaded on systems for accessing but in Ubuntu systems this is the default email service.


On the other hand, the user many times needs the process to set out of office in their Mozilla Thunderbird account and for this they search for how to set out of office in Mozilla Thunderbird on the internet. So, for doing this the user simply needs to follow the steps that are mentioned below and can further access it.

Hence, mentioned below are the steps to set out of office in the Thunderbird account:

  • First of all the user need to open Mozilla Thunderbird and should select on the wire option so as to get the new email dialogue box.
  • Then, in the subject option, enter out of office and also write something in the message body.
  • The recipient option should be blank.
  • Now the user is supposed to go to the file option and click on save as menu.
  • From there select the template option and further the user need to save the template as out of office.
  • After this the user need to close that window and then go to the tools menu.
  • From there select on message filter and click on the new button.
  • The user then need to make the new filter name as out of office reply and should click on matches the entire following menu.
  • Go to for apply filter when menu the user need to make the subject drop menu to “to” and should enter their email address in the end of the particular line.
  • Select on the plus button and change to option to status.
  • Again click on the plus option and change the “to” to status and the middle option to “isn’t”.
  • Now, go to perform these actions menu and change the move message to option to reply with template menu.
  • Go to the next drop and make it out of office template.  

Furthermore, to get more and more information on this topic the user can simply contact the Mozilla Thunderbird technical support and can get their details about to set up an out of office reply message in Thunderbird from the trained technicians. They can be called whenever the users want to and can also be communicated via emails.