You can set up a rule that will reply to incoming messages—if you leave Outlook running while you're away. For more information, see use rules to send an out of office message.

To set an automatic reply for contacts outside your company, select Outside My Organization > Auto-reply to people outside my organization, type in a message, and select OK.

If you're using a Microsoft Exchange account, go to Send automatic out of office replies from Outlook and follow the steps under “Set up an automatic reply.”

Use automatic replies in Outlook on the web to tell people you won't be responding right away to their email messages.

You can easily mark time as Busy or Out of office in your Outlook calendar. But what if you don’t use Microsoft 365 and you don’t have calendar sharing enabled, but you do need to make …

You can add any necessary exceptions, then select Next. Give your rule a name, for example, Out of Office. By default, Turn on this rule is checked. If you're ready to turn on your out of …

Set up an out of office status and message to let your teammates know you're not working or on vacation. When teammates send you a chat message, they'll see your out of office reply and …

To set the start and end dates, select the Send replies during this time period checkbox, and enter the start and end dates and times. Note: When you check this box and set start and end dates …

If you're using a Microsoft Exchange account, go to Send automatic out of office replies from Outlook and follow the steps under “Set up an automatic reply.”

In Outlook for iOS and Android, you can set up Out of Office replies for Microsoft 365, Exchange, Exchange (Hybrid), and Outlook.com accounts. To set up out of the office replies, tap Settings, …