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Guide

How to manage your email signature before the holidays

The practical guide before and during one's absence

Guide

How to manage your email signature before the holidays

The practical guide before and during one's absence

Introduction

This guide aims to help you manage the email signatures of your teams (and yours) during the holidays. The departure and absences of everyone are an opportunity to adjust and optimize communication to your contacts.
Discover how:

Anticipate closures
Add an out-of-office message for yourself or your team
Find your signature in the automatic absence messages

Introduction

Anticipate closures
Add an out-of-office message for yourself or your team
Find your signature in the automatic absence messages

Announcing one's absence before going on vacation.

In each email signature template that you find on Sigilium, an out-of-office message variable is available at the user level.

It allows you to inform all the contacts you exchange with via email that you will be absent for a few days or weeks. By doing this in advance of your vacation, you enable them to address many matters at the right time.

Specifically:

Log in to your space on Sigilium.
Click on the check mark: out-of-office message.
Edit your message and confirm, the result will appear.
The sync happens automatically in your preferred messaging app ✌️.

Announcing one's absence before going on vacation.

In each email signature template that you find on Sigilium, an out-of-office message variable is available for users.

It allows you to inform all the contacts you exchange emails with that you will be absent for a few days or weeks. By doing this ahead of your vacation, you enable them to address numerous topics at the right time.

Specifically:

Log in to your space on Sigilium.
Click on the checkbox: out-of-office message
Edit your message and validate, the result appears
the sync is done automatically in your preferred messaging service ✌️.

Deploy a closing message in the email signatures of the teams

Deploy a closure message to the teams.

If you have a store, a factory, or offices that close part of the year, you can announce it in advance in the email signatures of the teams.
This facilitates, for example, order placement for all customers who will need your products during the annual closure.

concretely:

At the level of Organizations, in your Sigilium interface, you can complete the absence message. Upon validation, it will be added automatically.

Deploy a closure message to the teams.

If you have a store, a factory, or offices that close for part of the year, you can announce this in advance in the email signatures of the teams.
This makes it easier, for example, to take orders for all customers who will need your products during the annual closure.

Specifically:

In the Organizations section, in your Sigilium interface, you can complete the out-of-office message. Upon validation, it will be added automatically.

Add your signature to automatic replies on Gmail.

If you go on vacation, you will undoubtedly activate an automatic out-of-office message. Very often, these are brief. You can make a difference and remain professional by displaying your email signature (HTML) even when you are absent.

Add your signature to automatic replies on Gmail.

If you go on vacation, you will likely activate an automatic out-of-office message. Very often, these are brief.

You can make a difference and remain professional by displaying your email signature (HTML) even when you are unavailable.

Here is how to do it on Gmail :

Select Settings (gear icon)
> See all settings.
On the General tab, scroll down to Vacation responder.
Select the box Vacation responder to activate it.
Make sure that above the text box the link (blue) "Plain text" is displayed.

Important: If you see the (blue) text "Advanced formatting", click on it to change it to "Plain text.
Write your message, you can choose the dates you want to send it and the people you want to send it to.
Click on Save changes.
Congratulations, it's done.

Note: the signature is not visible in the frame but will be visible when received by your contacts.

And if communications are sent during your absence, they will update automatically!

Here is how to do it on Gmail :

Select Settings (gear icon)
> See all settings.
On the General tab, scroll down to Vacation responder.
Select the box Vacation responder to activate it.
Make sure that above the text box the link (blue) "Plain text" is displayed.

Important: If you see the (blue) text "Advanced formatting", click on it to change it to "Plain text.
Write your message, you can choose the dates you want to send it and the people you want to send it to.
Click on Save changes.
Congratulations, it's done.

Note: the signature is not visible in the frame but will be visible when received by your contacts.

And if communications are sent during your absence, they will update automatically!

Add your signature in the automatic reply on Outlook.

If you are going on vacation, you will undoubtedly activate an automatic out-of-office message. Very often, these are brief. You can make a difference and remain professional by displaying your email signature (HTML) even in case of absence.

Find out how to do this with this dedicated notice for Outlook.