Most of you might know that we can setup a Gmail auto reply feature. For those, who are unknown about this, don’t worry this article will help you a lot.
If you are going out for a vaccation or if you want to respond same type of message then auto reply is very helpful to you. Nowadays most of the company has this auto reply system enabled.
You can use auto-reply in Gmail to trigger specific response so that you don’t have to spend much time on inbox and you can focus on your important work. Here is the method for setting auto reply in Gmail.
Before you enable the auto-reply feature you must set up the message to act as your automatic response. The steps to set automatic response are:
- Go to https://mail.google.com/mail
- Click on the gear icon and select settings
- You can find advanced in the menu, select Enable next to Canned Responses (Templates).
- Click save changes.
After you set the Canned response , you can click compose to create a new email . There you have to type the message that you want to set as automatic reply. After you set the message ,click on menu i.e 3 dots in the window to bring the email option. From there select Canned responses and then select New canned responses.
Setup a Gmail Auto Reply!
Once you have set your auto-reply response email, now you are ready to auto-response to specific emails. Here are steps to do so:-
- Click on the gear icon and select setting.
- After you click on setting, you can see Filters and blocked addresses click on that and select create a new filter.
- On the next window, choose the rule you like to apply for the Gmail filter. After you are finished, click Create filter
- On the next screen that appears, check the box having text Send a canned response and choose the canned response you created.
- Finally, click on Create filter and you are done
Various fields where you can use auto reply.
Auto reply are very useful in today’s world . You might go on a vaccation or you are in a leave , in that case auto rep;y comes in action. In this busy world, we can’t spend most of the time giving replies to each and every mails this is why auto reply is used frequently. Varioud fileds where auto reply comes in action are listed below:-
- Customer Serivce
- Contest/Giveaway
- Shipping confirmation
- Looking for a quote
- Vaccation autoresponder
How to enable autoresponder in Gmail?
You have to follow a couple of steps to enable Gmail autoresponder. The steps are:-
1. Go to http://gmail.com/
2. Click on setting and see all settings.
3. In the Default reply section, select Reply All
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