Send a different out-of-office email to domain and non-domain senders in Google Apps Email

Question

I use Google Apps at work and will be going on holiday in a couple of weeks.

I want to set up the Out-of-Office AutoReply to send a different email to people in the company and people who contact me from a different domain. Right now, the options for the autoreply are

• Only send a response to people in my Contacts
• Only send a response to people in Domain

So, is there some cleverness I can use to make two emails? One to reply to emails in the same domain, and one to reply outside?

Answer 1

Yes, this is possible using the Canned Responses lab combined with filters.

First, create two separate canned responses for each of the scenarios. Here's a good how-to for setting that up: http://time.com/12436/quick-gmail-trick-pre-write-email-messages-with-canned-responses/

Then you need to setup two filters:

from:(domain.com)

And:

from:(-domain.com), -(category:social), -(category:promotions), -(category:updates), -(category:forums)

And check the option to "Send canned response" and select the corresponding response.