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For Fastmail, this automated workflow monitors your inbox for new emails, extracts key details, and uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to generate personalized draft responses. It efficiently uploads these drafts to your Fastmail account, saving you time and enhancing your email communication.

7/8/2025
11 nodes
Medium
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Categories:
Medium WorkflowEmail Triggered
Integrations:
SplitOutEmailReadImapLangChainFilterSticky Note

Target Audience

Target Audience


- Small Business Owners: Those who manage their own email communications and want to automate responses to save time.
- Freelancers: Individuals who handle multiple client emails and need to streamline their reply process.
- Customer Support Teams: Teams looking to enhance their response time and maintain consistency in email replies.
- Marketing Professionals: Those who need to manage outreach and follow-up emails efficiently.
- Tech-Savvy Users: Individuals comfortable with API integrations and automation tools like n8n.

Problem Solved

Problem Solved


This workflow automates the process of drafting email replies, addressing the common challenges of:
- Time Consumption: Manually replying to emails can be time-intensive, especially when handling a high volume of messages.
- Personalization: Ensures responses are tailored to the context of the original email, maintaining a personal touch.
- Consistency: Helps maintain a consistent tone and style in responses, which is crucial for branding and relationship management.
- Efficiency: Reduces the cognitive load of drafting replies, allowing users to focus on more critical tasks.

Workflow Steps

Workflow Steps


1. Email Monitoring: The workflow continuously checks for new, unread emails in a specified IMAP inbox.
2. Data Extraction: Upon detecting a new email, it extracts essential details such as the sender, subject, body, and metadata.
3. AI Response Generation: The content is sent to OpenAI's GPT-4 model, which generates a personalized draft response based solely on the email's content.
4. Fastmail API Interaction: Connects to the Fastmail API to retrieve session details and mailbox IDs necessary for email operations.
5. Draft Identification: Determines the location of the "Drafts" folder within the mailbox to store the new draft email.
6. Draft Preparation: Compiles all relevant information, including the generated response and original email details, to create the draft.
7. Draft Uploading: Finally, uploads the prepared draft email to the "Drafts" folder in Fastmail, ready for review and sending.

Customization Guide

Customization Guide


- Change Email Monitoring Settings: Adjust the IMAP settings to monitor different email accounts or folders as needed.
- Modify AI Response Style: Update the prompt sent to OpenAI to change the tone or style of the generated responses (e.g., more formal or casual).
- API Credentials: Ensure that Fastmail and OpenAI credentials are correctly configured to allow seamless API interactions.
- Adjust Draft Content: Customize the fields used in the draft email, such as adding CC/BCC recipients or modifying the subject line.
- Error Handling: Implement error handling nodes to manage potential API failures or issues with email fetching.