Vacation? What's that.<p>Really, it isn't that hard to quickly scan emails while on a trip. No need to reply. If you are running a business you have no choice. And, again, it really isn't that hard. Part of it, in my opinion, is to systemize. For all of my business email I use Outlook exclusively. I have twenty years of cleand-up email (no spam, notices, etc) archived. This database has come in handy at times. The key is organization. I have extensive filters and even custom VBA code in place to organize and systemize email. I also run multiple instances of Outlook simultaneously, one per business, each with it's own separate pst file.<p>Incoming email gets sorted into relevant folders. For example, email from employees, vendors, customers and hosting providers go into their own folders, sometimes with additional granularity.<p>Stuff that is OK to delete --like notices-- goes into folders that get flushed out every ninety days.<p>I also sort email into an "Unknown Sources" folder: If the sender isn't in my address book they are an unknown source.<p>This and a few other tweaks makes it easy to manage email for more than one business without having to spend tons of time manually sorting and parsing. I have never in my life used automatic vacation response emails and can't remember any instance of wishing I had.<p>Again, this is from the perspective of an entrepreneur. I know some of my employees completely turn all company comms off during vacation. And that's OK.