In the left column of the Settings pane, click Mail. On the red, Cornell-themed toolbar, click the gear icon, then View all Outlook settings. Your messages will be delivered to you exactly the same way whether you have auto-reply turned on or off. If you use a non-Exchange client (like Thunderbird or Apple Mail), Outlook on the Web is the only way for you to manage your auto-reply. You only have one auto-reply, no matter how many ways you access your account. It also means you can start, stop, or change your auto-reply from any version of Outlook. The auto-reply function lives on the Office 365 servers, so you do not need to leave Outlook on the Web running on your computer for it to work. See our Using Auto-Reply with the World article for more information. It is almost always a bad idea to turn on auto-reply for all external senders.

Anyone outside - and this is everybody else.

My Contacts only - only people who (1) are not 'inside' but (2) DO have an entry in your Contacts are in this group.

The 'External' group is broken down into two smaller groups:

External Senders - this category is everyone who isn't 'Inside My Organization.' Most undergraduates (who use Cmail accounts) fall into this group.

They are not included in the 'Inside My Organization' group. Note: Some faculty, staff, and students are in Cornell departments that run their own email systems. All faculty and staff, and some graduate and professional students, have Office 365 accounts.

Inside My Organization - this category is only those people in the Cornell community who have accounts on Microsoft's Office 365 service.

With the Automatic Replies feature, you can create a reply that will be sent once to each person who sends you a message, and you can choose to include and exclude people based on these categories: Microsoft frequently updates the design of Outlook on the Web, so your version may not match exactly the description given here.

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