Outlook.com Automatic Replies

All the Outlook.com automatic responses They are a very interesting option that can help us make our work much easier. Today we are going to learn to configure these responses easily.

What are Outlook.com automatic replies

There may be different reasons why we are interested turn on Outlook.com automatic responses. Generally it will be because we are vacation and we do not answer the email, but we do not want to give the impression of lack of seriousness, but it is also possible that we directly want to improve the image of our business and respond instantly to new clients. There are many other reasons, but regardless of ours in particular, the important thing is that we learn the steps to activate the automatic responses de Outlook.com.

In essence, what we will achieve through this configuration is that the moment an email enters our email account, automatically and without the need for us to intervene, a certain text will be sent in another reply email.

As an example, let's go back to the possibility that we are a company and we want to give a good image of our company. public service. Suddenly we find ourselves outside the office and at that same moment a client asks us for a quote. If we use the account normally, what will happen is that we may not respond until the afternoon, which certainly does not create a very good feeling. However, if we activate the Outlook.com automatic responses, as soon as we receive the message in our account and without having yet read it, a text will automatically be sent that may be of the type:

"Dear Customer:

Thank you very much for trusting us. We will consult your request shortly and we will proceed to respond in the shortest period of time possible.

Kindest regards."

And in this way the client will consider it answered at least partially, or at least they will know that we have received their email.

How to activate Outlook.com somatic responses

Well, we are going to get to work and the first thing we are going to do is sign in to outlook.com and click on the gear wheel in the upper right corner.

We click on “Options” in the list that appears and we will enter a new screen whose section that interests us will be the following:

Here we will click on “Send automatic responses” and immediately we will see a large box with two options at the top.

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By default, the option to send automatic responses It will appear deactivated, but all we have to do is put the cursor over the lower box and it will automatically be activated.

Here we can write the text that we want to appear. We can enter the one we have previously given as an example or any other with the content that we want to communicate.

Finally, the “Reply only to your contacts” will appear activated, which means that this email will only be forwarded to the contacts that we have added in our account Outlook.com. However, if we want it to be forwarded to all incoming emails, we will need to deactivate it.

We now have nothing left but to save with what the process of Outlook.com automatic responses will be terminated.