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Google Labs has come out with yet another new feature in GMail called Canned Responses. As reported in the Official Google Blog, you can now save a reply as a canned response, and can choose this response as a reply to the future e-mails you will be getting.

So, here is how to create Canned Responses,

  • Click on Settings on upper right hand corner of your account page.
  • Select Labs tab and scroll down to Canned Responses and select Enable.
  • canned response

  • The next time you reply to a message, look for Canned response option in blue in your email
  • To map the Canned Response you just created to the auto reply feature, go to Gmail settings and select Filters and then select Create New Filter.
  • new filter

  • You will now see an option to “Send a Canned response”. Here is where you can select an individual reply to a specific sender.
  • canned reponse filter

Note that you can also create filters to reply based on keywords instead of senders name.

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  1. I had no idea. There are so many options in the Labs menu! Crazy.

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  2. Boosters

    You are Great Man. Thank YOu :)

  3. @JJ
    but many of those features are useless :D like Goggles!!

    @Boosters
    I guess you are a Gmail fan like me. If so, read other posts on GMail here
    http://www.techpp.com/tag/gmail

  4. this is cool. wasn’t aware this can be done. m a gmail user myself so i find this post very helpful, especially at work. will do this right away ^_^

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  5. @Techniqueal
    cheers mate! i am glad you liked it

  6. @Yasser
    My pleasure buddy :)

  7. This would be great, but unfortunately this doesn’t work for the emails generated from a form on my website. When gmail tries to send the response back it auto fills in a crazy email address from my domain instead of using the from email address or the reply-to email address.

  8. Tushar

    Hi,
    I got your mail & would get back to you soon.

    Regards,
    Tushar Betal
    Uttsha Interior Private Limited
    Kolkata

  9. Gmail user

    OK, can you explain to us how to have the signature added to all canned responses? This doesn’t seem to work when I try it (canned responses work, but the automatic signature is not attached).

    If you save the signature into the canned response, that’s less than ideal – it doesn’t update if you change the signature. Furthermore, the images inserted that way seem to be broken.

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