Vacation Responder
The Vacation Responder feature within Gmail allows users to setup an automatic email response if they are unable to respond to their email right away. A few scenarios when Vacation Responders can be helpful are: vacations, illness or injury, sabbatical, conferences, holiday or college breaks, and more.
To activate the Vacation Responder feature and compose an away message:
- Navigate to your Beloit College mail.
- Login using your Beloit account credentials.
- Click on the Settings (Gear) icon located at the top right of the window.
- In the pop-up menu, click on See all settings.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the section titled Vacation Responder.
- Select the date range for which you would like the responder to be active
- Fill in a subject and compose a message.
- Below the Compose field, there are two checkboxes (four possible combinations) for recipient options.
- If you do not check any of the boxes, the Vacation Responder message will be sent to everyone who sends you an email.
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- If you check both the boxes, the Vacation Responder message will only be sent to users that are both in Beloit College and in your contacts.
- When you are ready, click on Save Changes.
- The Vacation Responder will now be active during the dates you specified.
- A yellow Vacation Responder bar will appear at the top of your Gmail window with your chosen subject message while the responder is active.
Note: The Vacation Responder message that you have composed will be saved in the Settings > Vacation Responder for future reuse. To reuse the message, simply make any necessary edits, and then adjust the display date range and click the Save Changes button.
