If you're going to be unable to check your mail for a while, you might like to set up an automatic reply/vacation response message to let people know. To do so:
- Open the Settings → Vacation response screen.
- Click the toggle next to Enable vacation response.
- In the text box labeled Respond with this message, type what you what your autoresponder to say.
From this screen, you can choose:
- when the vacation response starts,
- when the vacation response ends,
- whether the vacation response should go to all people who contact you, or only to addresses that you have added as contacts in your addressbook,
- and which of your aliases should send the vacation response.
Auto-replies will be sent for as long as the toggle is enabled. A reply will be sent to the same address no more than once every 3 days, no matter how many times someone emails you. This is to make sure that people sending messages to you do not get multiple identical auto-replies from you every day.
Auto-replies will only be sent to messages where your email address is in the To or Cc field. Auto-replies will not be sent to messages that are marked as spam.
To help remind you if your auto-reply is active, a banner is displayed at the top of each conversation with shortcuts to change the settings or switch it off.
Please note that the auto-reply will not reply to emails sent from your own account. If you wish to test your auto-reply, you will need to send a test email from an external address.