How to add an automatic vacation responder in gmail

Do you want to know how to add an automatic vacation responder in Gmail?. Great, as you know, Gmail equips with lots of useful features to make our life easy. One of them is “Mail Auto Responder” which is used to send auto generated saved mail within your contact list.

You can use this feature when you’re not at your office desk or if you’re going somewhere on vacation. Just have a glance at this article to know how to add an automatic vacation responder in Gmail.

Steps to add an automatic vacation responder in Gmail:

Step 1: Login to your Gmail account by providing to your email address and Gmail password and then click on “Sign in” button.

Step 2: Under Gmail dashboard, click on the gear icon and then select “settings” option.

Step 3: Now, under settings, go to the general tab and traverse to “Vacation responder” option. By default  “vacation responder off” radio button is turned on.

Step 4: Now, you have turned on “vacation responder on” radio button which will initiate this gmail feature.

Step 5: Now, select the “first day” from builtin Gmail calendar. The first day is the start date of your vacation. In our case, we are choosing (December 11, 2015) as shown in the image below.

Step 6: Similarly, you’ve to select “last day”  from builtin Gmail calendar which is of course last day of your vacation. As in our case it is (December 27, 2015).

Step 7: Now, below that there is a subject line. Just type your subject and move next.

Step 8: After that, type your message in the message box as shown in the image below.

Step 9: If you want to send this vacation responder mail within your contacts then you can select “Only send a response to people in my Contacts” checkbox otherwise uncheck it, if you want to send this mail to everyone and then finally click on “Save changes” button to save your changes.

That’s all friends. Keep reading.