Out Of Office / Vacation Reply
If you’ll be away from your Gmail account, like on a vacation or without access to the Internet, you can set up a vacation responder to automatically notify people that you won’t be able to get back to them right away. When people send you a message, they’ll receive an email response containing what you’ve written in your vacation auto reply.
Turn your vacation reply on or off
Set up your vacation reply
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings
See all settings.
- Scroll down to the “Vacation responder” section.
- Select Vacation responder on.
- Fill in the date range, subject, and message.
- Under your message, check the box if you only want your contacts to see your vacation reply.
- At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
Note: If you have a Gmail signature, it will be shown at the bottom of your vacation response.
Turn off your vacation reply
When your vacation reply is on, you’ll see a banner across the top of your inbox that shows the subject of your vacation response.
To turn off your vacation response, click End now.
