Comments on: 3 Handy Uses for Gmail's Canned Responses Feature

By: Alexis Naylor

Alexis Naylor — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:38:44 +0000

Well, I’ve always liked to think of myself as an automation freak and yet it’s taken me until NOW to discover this!! Previously I was using Firefox’s web clippings extension. The downside to that being, if ever I’m on someone else’s machine and logged in to Gmail, I wouldn’t have access to the clippings. Now, problem solved!

By: Jesse Pappas

Jesse Pappas — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:00:16 +0000

You are a genius. I have been getting killed with email overload and this should help me free up some time.

Thanks,

Jesse

By: pero

pero — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:51:53 +0000

hello everyone...

I have one question.

I would need to send caneded respons to person whos mail is in a incoming email, which is send to us from system over which i have no control...

Every idea would save me.

pleas fell free to send me mail on pero.pero3@gmail.com

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Are Your Favorite Apps Missing Some Features? Find Creative Workarounds Instead — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:01:50 +0000

[...] after seeing how other users made the most of it and by testing it myself, I quickly realized that Canned Responses has more potential uses, including setting up “smart” autoresponders and creating multiple signatures. So [...]

By: 3 Productivity Tips for the Corporate Web Worker

3 Productivity Tips for the Corporate Web Worker — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:02:23 +0000

[...] communication can save more time than you might expect over the long term. Celine wrote some handy tips on how to use canned responses in Gmail that could also be applied to other email [...]

By: david rothwell

david rothwell — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:34:16 +0000

Good point and useful for autoresponder, but I want to save an email template which I'm not using as a reply.

The Subject is thrown away when saving as a canned response which to me is so basic I couldn't believe it was happening until I tested it. I just assumed that creating the template would save every field of info I supplied.

By: Kimgsley kc.Ogbodo

Kimgsley kc.Ogbodo — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:28:32 +0000

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By: Alim

Alim — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:37:51 +0000

Same issue with the manually inserted remote images.. they don't display..:-(.. any solutions..?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:42:49 +0000

Does anyone know why the canned response sends the email the "mailed-by" name and not who is listed as the "reply to"?????

If you simply click reply on the message it works.... but the canned response emails it to the mailed-by..... Im using an email code so people can sign up on my site and it auto emails me from the service..... so all my canned responses go to them instead of the address listed as reply-to??????

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:20:25 +0000

Hi,

Some great tips. Have you found that the email signatures (manually made up ones with inserted images) don't display the images properly? Just a box with the dreaded red 'x'?

By: AmyL

AmyL — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:12:06 +0000

The reason the subject line matters to so many people, is that we're using the "Canned Responses" as a work around for email templates.

With my business, I use email templates for every stage of a person's inquiry, product proofing, and shipment of the product... so, it's not quite a "response" or a full fledged working "template" fix.

But yes, I would like the option of the subject line to stay, my business email address to stay as the outgoing address, and save the appropriate attachment (IE pricing guide or order form) with the specific canned response.

Hopefully some of this will be in the works for the future of this feature!

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:18:14 +0000

[...] WebWorkerDaily pointed out the use of Canned Responses as smart autoresponder: What I love about Gmail’s canned responses is that unlike most autoresponder features from other free webmail providers, you don’t have to send the same automated email to everyone who sends you anything. By using canned responses hand-in-hand with Gmail’s filters, you can trigger Gmail to send out a specific response based on an incoming email’s keywords, who the the sender is, and other criteria. [...]

By: Blog on travel

Blog on travel — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:58:32 +0000

Just to let you know that subject of the canned message does not matter as it will be the subject of the sender with a RE: in front. In your case it will be a reply to the subject created by your mail form...

By: Google Auto Responder

Google Auto Responder — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:31:11 +0000

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By: 5 Smartest Tips to Handle Important Mail

5 Smartest Tips to Handle Important Mail — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:06:55 +0000

[...] ways to get into contact with you urgently (including cell phone, IMs, etc). (For Gmail users) Use this post as guidelines: they did an awesome job explaining the process, so no reason to explain it [...]

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:37:30 +0000

While you can't use a different email addresses with Canned Responses (which would be handy for some folks), it's not true that you can't use a non-Google address with Gmail -- here at GigaOM, we use Google Apps to manage email on our domain and it works very well.