Setting Out of Office/Town Message in Gmail

In our previous post we learn about how to set Out Of Office Message in Outlook 2010. But this is good for those people who contact your on your office id's. What about those people who doesn't know your office id. If there are more than 100 people including your friends and family who are in contact with you via Gmail, how will they come to know about your vacation.

But, now its possible. Gmail too has a feature to set an message when you are not in town or on vacation.

Follow the steps below:

1. Login to your gmail account.

2. Select the "Setting" tab and scroll down till you find the "Vacation Responder" section.

3. Enable it by selecting "Vacation Responder On".

4. Enter your date from when you will not be in the town. You can enter the date in both First Day and End date option or can enter date only for the First Day.

5. Check the option "Only send a response to people in my Contacts", if you don’t want everyone who emails you to know that you’re away.

6. Click on Save Changes to activate the Vacation Responder.

Once saved, you will see a banner on top of your gmail page, showing the subject line of the auto-response message. To stop this click on the End Now. You can also edit the setting of your Vacation Responder.

I hope you like this post. If you find this a bit useful please comment.

Cheers!!!