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Sending an out-of-office or autoreply email

Sending an out-of-office or autoreply email

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Sending an out-of-office or autoreply email

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- When you go on vacation, you probably change your voicemail on your phone telling callers the dates you'll be unavailable to return their calls. You can do the same type of thing with email, and it's called out-of-office. Outlook will auto-respond to anyone that emails you during the dates you'll be away with a message that you specify. It's important to note that this functionality is supported in Outlook only if you're connected to an Exchange or Office 365 account. If you're using POP or IMAP, you can create a message rule to send out a reply to all incoming messages. However, the Outlook client has to be open and running. I'm using Gmail for IMAP. Gmail has its own vacation responder built right into their web interface, so you should check first with your email provider to make sure they don't already have this functionality. In my Land and Hotel account, however, let's create an out-of-office message. Select File from the ribbon tab, make sure you're on the Info tab on the…

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