#How to set up icloud email how to

Google Mail (Gmail) is a very popular email platform, and it also has an autoresponder capability built in. Whenever a message is sent to your iCloud Mail, theВ automatic reply is immediately generated and sent to the original sender. Now you just need to type in the message that youвЂ™d like to send to those who are sending you email messages while youвЂ™re playing on the beach: (Setting up the iCloud Mail autoresponder.)ДҐ) Click вЂњDoneвЂќ in the lower right corner, and your settings are saved. Click on the Vacation button outlined in red in the image below: (Click the Vacation button to set up an autoresponder.)Д¤) In the window that appears (screenshot below), click the check box next to вЂњAutomatically reply to messages when they are received.вЂќ Next, click the Start date field and select the first date of your vacation from the calendar picker. Select Preferences from the menu and the following window appears (see screenshot below). Hidden away in the settings for iCloud Mail is just what weвЂ™re looking for.ДЎ) Point your web browser to, enter your Apple ID and password, and youвЂ™re greeted with the iCloud Launchpad showing all of the iCloud apps you have access to (see screenshot below): (The iCloud Launchpad.)Дў) Click on Mail to enter the web Mail client, then click on the gearВ button in the lower left corner of the screen as designated by the red arrow in the screenshot below: (Once in iCloud Mail, click on the gear button to enter preferences.)ДЈ) That button providesВ menu access to Preferences, Rules, and Empty Trash. Your Apple email - with a mac.com, me.com or domain suffix - is not only accessible from those apps, but also from using any web browser. You could look all day for a setting in the macOS or iOS Mail apps that lets you set up an autoresponder, but you wonвЂ™t find one.

#How to set up icloud email how to

ItвЂ™s called an autoresponder, and today weвЂ™ll show you how to set one up in both iCloud Mail and Gmail.

Sadly, the flood of emails that appear in your inboxes wonвЂ™t take a vacation, but there is a way to let others know that youвЂ™re out of town and may not respond to emails as quickly as you normally do. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just around the corner, the kids are out of school, and itвЂ™s time to go on vacation.