(Emeriti) Vacation Responder

Note: these directions are for Blake emeriti. If this designation does not apply to you, follow the directions here.

You can set your Blake email to automatically respond to people who email you with information that their message has been delivered, and informing them that you will be replying from your address. This feature is called the "Vacation Responder", and directions to enable it are below:

    1. Open your Blake email.

    2. In the top-right, click the gear .

    3. Select Settings.

    4. Scroll down to the Vacation responder section (stay in the "General" tab).

    5. Select Vacation responder on.

    6. Fill in the message – we suggest something similar to:

    7. Subject: Mail Delivery Notification

    8. Hello,

    9. Your message has been delivered, but my email address has changed to hikingfan@gmail.com. My replies will come from that address, and please use that address for future correspondence.

  1. For a date range, we recommend not to set the last day. For emeriti, the vacation response will continue to work forever, even after you lose access to your Blake email account.

    1. You can limit who can see your vacation response to only your contacts or only people at Blake, but we recommend that you check neither of these boxes

    2. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Below is a review of our suggested settings:

Settings

Here is a video from Google about setting a vacation responder. The interface is slightly out of date, but everything is in more or less the same place.

More Information

Your vacation responder starts at 12:00 AM on the start date and ends at 11:59 PM on the end date, unless you end it earlier.

In general, your reply is only sent once to people who email you. However, if the same person contacts you again after four days and your vacation responder is still on, Gmail will send another vacation response to remind the person that you're away from your email. Your vacation response will start over each time you edit it, so if someone receives your initial vacation response, and then emails you again after you've edited the subject or body of the message, he or she will receive the edited response.

Messages classified as spam and messages addressed to a mailing list you subscribe to will not receive a vacation response.

Based on Gmail Help – Out of office or vacation reply