From the course: Outlook Essential Training (Microsoft 365)

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Turn on automatic replies

Turn on automatic replies

- [Instructor] When you go on vacation, you probably change your voicemail on your phone telling callers the dates you'll be unavailable to return calls. You can do the same with email, and it's called Automatic Replies or Out of Office. Outlook will auto respond to anyone that emails you within the dates that you'll be away. If you use IMAP, you can create a message rule to apply to all incoming mail. However, the Outlook client does have to be open and running. So ideally, this is great for Microsoft 365 users. Now, if you remember, I'm also using Gmail. Now Gmail has its own vacation responder built right into their web interface, so it's always worth checking with the email provider first to see if they already have this functionality. But my Red 30 email is Microsoft 365. So let's create an automatic reply for that. Click the gear icon on the top right-hand side of the screen. In the Account section, click…

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