How to Add an Email Vacation Responder

Before You Begin

This tutorial will walk you through setting up a vacation responder on your employee email account. Once enabled, anyone who sends you an email will automatically receive your out-of-office message. This feature is useful for notifying others when you are on vacation or unavailable, and can also be customized to share relevant information with senders during your absence. You can also follow along through the accessible photo guide here: How to Add an Email Vacation Responder

  • You will need access to your employee/student email 

Steps

  1. Once logged in to your employee email account, select the settings (gear) icon on the top right corner, then select “See all Settings.” 
  2. In the General tab, scroll down until you see the Vacation responder area at the very bottom of the page. 
  3. Select Vacation responder ON. Specify the range (first and last day) of the vacation responder. Make sure to set up the Last Day, since otherwise the vacation response will continue indefinitely.
  4. Write your Automatic Response 
    1. Subject corresponds to the title of the email. 
    2. The message corresponds to the content of the email. Make sure your email complies with accessibility standards.
    3. Select who the vacation responder messages are sent to (Contacts Only or all Edmonds College) 
  5. When ready, select* Save Changes.* The vacation responder is now active.