Windows 10: Turn On or Off Automatic Replies in Windows 10 Mail app

How to: Turn On or Off Automatic Replies in Windows 10 Mail app

How to Turn On or Off Automatic Replies in Mail app in Windows 10


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on whats important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

You can use automatic replies in the Mail app to notify others that you are out of office, on vacation, or not available to reply to email messages.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatic replies in the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.



Here's How:

1. Open the Mail app, and click/tap on the Settings button, and click/tap on Automatic replies in Settings. (see screenshot below)



2. Select the email account name (ex: Outlook) that you want to turn automatic replies on or off for. (see screenshot below)




3. Do step 4 (on) or step 5 (off) below for what you want to do.


4. To Turn On Automatic Replies for Account in Mail app
A) Turn on Send automatic replies, enter the message you want automatically sent, and: (see screenshot below)

• Check or uncheck the Send replies outside of my organization for what you want.
  • If checked, enter the message you want automatically sent.
  • Check or uncheck the Send replies only to my contacts for what you want.

B) For as long as automatic replies is turned on for the account, you will get a You're sending automatic replies from <account name> prompt to Turn off or Dismiss (leave on) whenever you open the account's inbox. (see screenshot below)




5. To Turn Off Automatic Replies for Account in Mail app
*note This is the default setting.
A) Turn off Send automatic replies. (see screenshot below)





That's it,
Shawn

:)

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Windows 10 mail automatically downloads images

Hello,

I understand that the images are automatically downloaded in Windows Mail. We will help you.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if the issue resolves.

• Open Windows Mail App.
• Click on the Gear Icon/ Settings on the left bottom.
• Select Reading in the right corner.
• Turn Off Automatically download external images and Style Fonts.
• Restart the Application and check if the issue resolves.

Please post to us with more information to help you better.

 

Add Signature and Auto-reply in Mail app.


Add signature:
Open Mail app > left bottom, click the gear icon ( Settings ) > right side, click Signature > select the account you want to add signature or click Apply to all accounts > make sure Use an email signature is turned on > enter your signature into the box.

Automatic replies :
Open Mail app > left bottom, click the gear icon ( Settings ) > right side, click Automatic Replies > select the account > turn Send Automatic Replies to ON.

There are many other options under Settings. Explore them.

 

Turn On or Off Automatic Updates for Apps in Windows 10 Store  

Hello evildog1,

You might also use the tutorial below to turn off automatic installation of suggested apps to help more.

How to Turn On or Off Automatically Installing Suggested Apps in Windows 10

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hey Shawn,
I did that to no avail, then I ran WSReset.exe; now I'm good on all 3, Mail, Calendar and People! *Confused
Go figure!

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