How to set up an "Autoreply" in Gmail is one of the regular questions we see in the Gmail Help Community. An "Autoreply" is different from a "Vacation response" or an "Out of Office" message. It helps Gmail users to automatically send out a first response either to important senders, or to all messages where the Gmail user is listed as a To or Cc recipient. This can be used in situations where one plans to acknowledge emails sent by specific senders or has changed their contact email address and wishes to communicate their new Gmail address to all emailing them at their old Gmail address. The process of setting up the Gmail "Autoreply" involves two Gmail features, namely - Template responses and Filters. Because both these can't be created using the Gmail mobile apps, this setup can only be done by accessing Gmail from a supported, updated desktop browser using this link - https://mail.google.com/ . The first thing we must...
Quite regularly, in the Gmail Help Community, we receive queries on how to add a non-Gmail email address to the Gmail Android app since it comes as the default Email app in most Android devices and dispenses with installing other similar email apps. In this blog article, I plan to document the steps, with screenshots, on how to do so. The non-Gmail addresses used are p*****@hotmail.com, a*****@yahoo.com and f*****@aol.com. All the three email addresses have 2-factor authentication enabled. One of the 2-factor authentication options being codes from the Google Authenticator or any other TOTP app. For ease of navigation, I am going to divide this blog article into three sections, namely: Adding a Hotmail address Adding an AOL address Adding a Yahoo address We begin by opening the Gmail Android app on our mobile device and tap on the circular profile icon that's in the top-right corner. It opens a pop-up screen to display the currently set-up accounts and the options to Add an...