Setting an Automatic Vacation Response in Google Mail
Going on vacation? No access to the Internet? No problem! Use Gmail's vacation responder to let
people know you won't be able to get back to them right away.
You can set up a vacation response in your Gmail settings that will automatically reply to anyone who
emails you. While the vacation responder is enabled, Gmail will send a response to anyone who
contacts you (except mailing lists or mails flagged as spam). If that person contacts you again after four days and your vacation responder is still
enabled, Gmail will send another vacation response to remind the person that you're away from your
email.
Follow the steps below to create an automatic vacation response.
1. Once you've logged in to your email, click "SETTINGS."
2. From the General tab, select Vacation responder on in the Vacation responder: section.
3. Enter the subject and body of your message in the Subject: and Message: fields.
4. Check the box next to Only send a response to people in my Contacts if you don't want
everyone who emails you to know that you're away from your mail.
5. Click "SAVE CHANGES."
While the vacation responder is enabled, you'll see a banner across the top of any Gmail page,
displaying the subject of your vacation response. To stop Gmail from automatically sending the
response, click end now within the banner. Or, if you'd like to edit the response, click vacation settings.
