We use Gmail for official mail and we need to notify when someone is on vacation.
Where in the inbox settings do we set up an out-of-office, or vacation, responder that will send an email on our behalf during a specific time to incoming emails?
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Sign up to join this communityWe use Gmail for official mail and we need to notify when someone is on vacation.
Where in the inbox settings do we set up an out-of-office, or vacation, responder that will send an email on our behalf during a specific time to incoming emails?
Click on the gear icon at the top right of your inbox. It looks like this:
Select Settings.
I'll pose the contrarian point of view -- I never, ever, ever set any of my e-mail accounts to out-of-office mode. Why? Two main reasons:
Click on "Settings" You should be in the "General" tab. Somewhere at the bottom there is a setting called "vacation responder". Just fill it out.