Out of office or
vacation reply
If you'll be away from your Gmail
account, like on a vacation or without access to the Internet, you can set up a
vacation responder to automatically notify people that you won't be able to get
back to them right away. When people send you a message, they'll receive an
email response containing what you've written in your vacation auto reply.
Turn your
vacation reply on or off
Set up your vacation
reply
1.
On your computer, open Gmail.
2.
In the top right, click Settings 
Settings.
Settings.
3.
Scroll down to the "Vacation responder" section.
4.
Select Vacation responder on.
5.
Fill in the date range, subject, and message.
6.
Under your message, check the box if you only want your contacts to
see your vacation reply.
7.
At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
Turn off
your vacation reply
When your vacation reply is on, you'll
see a banner across the top of your inbox that shows the subject of your
vacation response.
To turn off your vacation response,
click End now.
When your
vacation reply is sent
Your vacation reply starts at 12:00 AM
on the start date and ends at 11:59 PM on the end date, unless you end it
earlier.
In most cases, your vacation response is
only sent to people the first time they message you.
Here are the times someone may see your vacation
response more than once:
·
If the same person contacts you again after four days and your vacation
reply is still on, they'll see your vacation response again.
·
Your vacation response starts over each time you edit it. If someone gets
your initial vacation response, then emails you again after you've edited your
response, they'll see your new response.
·
If you use Gmail through your work, school, or other organization, you can
choose whether your response is sent to everyone or only people in your organization.
Note: Messages sent to your
spam folder and messages addressed to a mailing list you subscribe to won't get
your vacation response.
