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Read and process emails using artificial intelligence

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Workflow Description

An automation that retrieves emails from your inbox via IMAP, processes them through OpenAI's language models, intelligently categorizes and prioritizes messages based on content analysis, and organizes them automatically.

How it works

  1. 1.Connect securely to your email account via IMAP protocol
  2. 2.Extract and retrieve incoming email messages
  3. 3.Send email content to OpenAI for intelligent analysis
  4. 4.Apply smart filtering based on AI insights
  5. 5.Automatically categorize and organize messages by priority

Use cases

  • Automatically triage customer support emails by urgency
  • Extract and summarize key information from long email chains
  • Classify incoming inquiries into predefined business categories

Requirements

  • Active email account with IMAP access enabled
  • Valid OpenAI API key with sufficient credits
  • Secure credentials stored in n8n

Service Value

Ideal as a smart automation service combining integrations and AI to produce ready-to-use results.

Apps Used

HTTP Request Split Out Email Read Imap Set OpenAI Filter

Details

Trigger Manual trigger
Nodes 9
Apps 6
Views 526
Downloads 158

How to Use

  1. 1.Click "Download Template"
  2. 2.Open your n8n dashboard
  3. 3.Go to Workflows > Import from File
  4. 4.Select downloaded file and configure credentials

Nodes Used (9)

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Session

HTTP Request

#1

Get Mailbox IDs

HTTP Request

#2

Split Out

Split Out

#3

Email Trigger (IMAP)

Email Read Imap

#4

Get fields from source email

Set

#5

OpenAI

OpenAI

#6

Filter for drafts folder

Filter

#7

upload draft email

HTTP Request

#8

gather data for draft email

Set

#9

Sticky Note

Sticky Note

#10

Sticky Note1

Sticky Note

#11
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