When you plan a vacation with family or friends, you may want to let people know that you are on vacation, and where/how they can contact you. For this, you can set up a vacation responder in Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. Here is how you can put a vacation responder message in your email account:

Gmail Vacation Responder Setup:
  1. Click on the Settings icon in the top-right corner of your mail screen.
  2. Scroll down to the Vacation Responder section.
  3. Select the Vacation Responder on option and set the date range, subject and message.
Hotmail/Outlook.com Vacation Responder Setup:
  1. Click on the More Options link in the Options drop down menu on the right hand side of your mail screen.
  2. Click on the Sending automated vacation replies option in the More Options page.
  3. Setup vacation reply message.
  4. Uncheck the Only reply to your contacts option if you want to reply to everyone.
Yahoo Vacation Responder Setup:
  1. Click on Mail Options in the Settings drop down menu in the top-right corner of your mail screen.
  2. Click on Vacation Response in Mail Options screen on left hand side.
  3. Select the Enable auto-response during these dates (inclusive) option and setup date range & message.

You can setup different messages for different domain emails by selecting Different response to emails from specific domain.

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