Most of us are tethered to our emails these days, but if you get a chance to go on vacation and leave your email inbox behind, setting up an autoresponder is a good idea. This sends an automatic reply of your choice to anyone who emails you while you're offline. Setting up an autoresponder in Gmail only takes a couple of minutes.

Steps

  1. 1
    Log into your Gmail account.
  2. 2
    Click on the cog icon and then select Settings.
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  3. 3
    Scroll down in the General settings menu, until you hit Vacation responder.
  4. 4
    Select the radio button next to Vacation responder on.
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    Write a subject and message. You'll probably want this include some basic information for anyone emailing you, including:
    • how long you'll be offline/away from email
    • when you can be expected to respond to them
    • to whom they should write if they have an urgent situation
  7. 7
    Decide if it should go to everyone or just your Contacts list. If you want to send it only to your contacts, check the box saying so.
  8. 8
    Click Save Changes at the bottom of the menu. Then try to stay away from checking your email while you're on vacation!
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