autoresponder

noun

au·to·re·spond·er ˌȯ-tō-ri-ˈspän-dər

variants or auto-responder or less commonly auto responder

plural autoresponders or auto-responders also auto responders

: a software feature that automatically sends a response to incoming messages (such as emails)

… it has an email autoresponder that you can use to send follow-up emails to customers after they have made a purchase.—

Angela Scott-Briggs

The auto responder is a company's introduction to potential clients and customers. It sends … informational messages to site registrants. It delivers reminders about products and services.—

Mitch Tuch

Think about a short message—conveyed on voice mail and on email and SMS auto-responders—that says something like: "As you can imagine, I'm very busy at the moment. …"—

Kwame Anthony Appiah

also : a response sent by an autoresponder : auto-response

"One of the most important things that I do before I go on vacation to keep me from being overwhelmed after is I put up an autoresponder that is a little bit more detailed than 'Hey, I'm out of the office from this day to this day.' …" —

Anna Dearmon Kornick, quoted in HuffPost

An SMS autoresponder … is an automated message that is sent to customers. The message is triggered when a customer sends a text to the business. —

PRWeb Newswire

"If you want weekends off, you can write an auto-responder that says, 'I'm away from my e-mail until Monday morning. If this is an emergency, please call me on my cell,'" suggests [Sherry] Turkle. —

Liz Welch

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Lauren Goode: Boone wrote back to my autoresponder the other day. —

Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024 So consider using an email autoresponder to save yourself some time. —

Mark Snell, Forbes, 9 June 2022 Is there anything more satisfying than setting up an OOO autoresponder? —

Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 1 Aug. 2022