How to Set Out Of Office Replies In Outlook

If you’re heading off to a vacation and you’re not going to be available to reply to your emails, it’s a good idea to set an ‘out of office’ reply in Outlook on your computer. This way, anyone who sends you an email will receive an automatic response letting them know of your absence in the office.

Outlook lets you create custom replies to be automatically sent to anyone who emails you. You can also specify a custom date period during which the app should handle your emails for you.

Set Out Of Office Outlook Replies For Exchange Accounts

If you’re in a business environment and your company or organization uses Microsoft Exchange, you have a really easy way to set out of office replies in Outlook for your email account.

Outlook will now auto-send your predefined custom message to anyone who sends you an email during your specified date period.

Set Out Of Office Replies in Outlook For IMAP/POP3 Accounts

Most general users out thereuse IMAP or POP3 accountsin their Outlook. This usually includes using your Hotmail, Gmail, and such other email accounts with the Outlook app. If you’re one of these users, you’ll need to create a rule to send out automatic replies as the above method won’t work for you.

Fortunately, though, creating a custom message anda rule to automate sendingthe replies isn’t too difficult in Outlook.

Setting An Out Of Office Reply On The Outlook Web Version

A lot of users are ditching their desktop apps and replacing them with their web counterparts. If you’ve done that already and use the Outlook web version for your emails, you can set an out of office reply in Outlook for web, too.

This one’s easier to do than any other methods discussed above.

It’s a really great thing to be able to set an out of office reply in Outlook. Let us know if you use it and what your auto-reply message looks like in the comments below.

Mahesh has been obsessed with technology since he got his first gadget a decade or so ago. Over the last few years, he’s written a number of tech articles on various online publications including but not limited to MakeTechEasier and Android AppStorm.Read Mahesh’s Full Bio

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