Automate Email Processing and Route Management with n8n
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Streamline your email workflow by automatically processing incoming messages with AI and updating your route management system. This workflow intelligently extracts information, categorizes emails, and maintains the active status of your routes in Airtable.
About This Workflow
The 'mails2notion V2' n8n workflow is designed to bring intelligent automation to your email management and operational processes. Leveraging the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o, this workflow processes incoming emails, extracts key information, and then uses that data to update records in Airtable, specifically managing the 'Active' status of your routes. It ensures that only relevant emails trigger actions by filtering based on an 'Active' flag, extracts specific route identifiers from email addresses, and then uses an AI model to parse and structure the email's content into a summary, sender, subject, and date. Finally, it updates the corresponding route in Airtable to inactive and adds a 'Processed' label to the email for clear tracking. Error handling is also included with an 'Error' label for any failed operations.
Key Features
- AI-Powered Email Parsing: Utilizes GPT-4o to accurately summarize emails and extract metadata like sender, subject, and date.
- Smart Route Management: Automatically updates the 'Active' status of routes in Airtable based on processed emails.
- Selective Processing: Filters emails to ensure only relevant messages trigger automation, based on an 'Active' flag.
- Automated Labeling: Applies 'Processed' or 'Error' labels to Gmail messages for easy tracking and auditing.
- Structured Output: Generates structured JSON output for seamless integration with other systems.
How To Use
- Gmail Trigger: Configure a Gmail trigger to detect incoming emails. Ensure your credentials are set up correctly.
- Active Routes Only Filter: Set up a filter node to only process emails if the associated route is marked as 'Active' (using a custom field like '$json.Active').
- Extract Route ID: Use a Set node to extract a 'route' identifier from the email's 'to' address using a regular expression. This assumes a pattern like '+<route_id>@yourdomain.com'.
- Get Route by ID (Implicit): (While not explicitly shown in this snippet, this would typically be the next step to fetch the Airtable record based on the extracted route ID).
- OpenAI Chat Model: Configure the OpenAI Chat node with GPT-4o, setting the
responseFormattojson_objectandtemperatureto 0 for consistent output. You'll likely need to prompt it to summarize the email and extract sender, subject, and date. - Structured Output Parser: Use the
outputParserStructurednode to define a JSON schema that matches the expected output from the OpenAI model. This ensures your data is consistently structured. - Deactivate Route: Configure the Airtable node to 'update' the specific route in your 'Routes' table, setting its 'Active' field to
falseusing the ID obtained from a previous step. Ensure your Airtable credentials and base/table IDs are correct. - Add Label "Processed": Use the Gmail node to add a 'Processed' label to the incoming email, indicating successful processing. Reference your 'processedLabelID' from a Globals node.
- Add Label "Error": Implement error handling by using a separate Gmail node to add an 'Error' label if any part of the workflow fails. Reference your 'errorLabelID' from a Globals node. Ensure this node is connected to the error output of preceding nodes.
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Workflow JSON
{
"id": "4b5b816e-5345-438c-9f30-f90f2d45269d",
"name": "Automate Email Processing and Route Management with n8n",
"nodes": 21,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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