Gmail – Send a different out-of-office email to domain and non-domain senders in Google Apps Email

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I use Google Apps at work and will be going on holiday in a couple of weeks.

I want to set up the Out-of-Office AutoReply to send a different email to people in the company and people who contact me from a different domain. Right now, the options for the autoreply are

  • Only send a response to people in my Contacts
  • Only send a response to people in Domain

So, is there some cleverness I can use to make two emails? One to reply to emails in the same domain, and one to reply outside?

Best Answer

Yes, this is possible using the Canned Responses lab combined with filters.

First, create two separate canned responses for each of the scenarios. Here's a good how-to for setting that up: http://time.com/12436/quick-gmail-trick-pre-write-email-messages-with-canned-responses/

Then you need to setup two filters:

from:(domain.com)

And:

from:(-domain.com), -(category:social), -(category:promotions), -(category:updates), -(category:forums)

And check the option to "Send canned response" and select the corresponding response.

Create a filter

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