Gmail – Send Automatic Canned Responses for Emails via POP

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I have email from my personal domain POP'ed by my Gmail account. It works beautifully, except that it can't seem to do auto-replies.

That means that I can't have an away message when I'm on vacation. And it means I can't create filters using canned responses.

(I know that Canned Responses only apply to new, incoming messages that arrive through SMTP [directly sent to Gmail], not to messages fetched through POP3.)

  • How can I make this work within Gmail?
  • If I don't have access to mail forwarding on my old account, what other options do I have?

Best Answer

Short answer

Instead of using POP use email forwarding from your other account to be able to use Filters and Canned Responses in Gmail

Explaination

it can't seem to do auto-replies

I beg to differ.

Make sure Canned Responses is activated: Activate canned responses Gmail

Then you create a filter for emails that are sent to your old email address:

to:(my.old.address@example.com)

EDIT: Note that this will not work for mails fetched through POP3, only for forwarded messages. If your old account has an auto-forwarding feature, that's the way to go. (The other answer here pointed this out.)

You call the filter, say, Old. Then you select a canned response for that filter. Actually, you don't even need to do that. You can autorespond to these emails just the same just by creating a filter for them.

Look at this screenshot:

Gmail canned responses autoresponder

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