Vacation / Auto Responder Email

Engineering mail account holders can set up automatic replies for when they are out-of-office or otherwise unavailable to respond to email.

Instructions

Faculty, Staff & Current Students:

Navigate to the DECS web services login page at https://www.egr.msu.edu/decs/myaccount/?page=login, and login with your EGR credentials.

Under the Account menu on the left side of the screen, navigate to "E-MAIL AUTO RESPONDER".

Server information you will need:

Username: Your engineering NetID
Password: Your engineering password
Incoming mail server: mail.egr.msu.edu
Incoming security: SSL
Incoming port: 993
Outgoing mail server: mail.egr.msu.edu
Outgoing security: SSL
Outgoing port: 587

Please note that the EGR email does not work with the Outlook app on mobile.