Harvey Specter's Automated Email Excuse Generator
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Tired of crafting replies? This n8n workflow automates email responses for specific senders by generating humorous excuses from an Excel spreadsheet and sending a personalized reply, all while keeping you informed via Slack.
About This Workflow
This clever n8n workflow demonstrates advanced email automation by reading incoming messages from an IMAP account. It intelligently identifies specific senders (like Louis Litt) and, for those critical emails, dynamically generates a unique excuse from a pre-configured Excel spreadsheet. The workflow then crafts an automated, personalized email reply using this excuse. For all other incoming mail, it provides a general notification via Slack, ensuring you stay updated without being overwhelmed. It's a perfect example of how n8n can handle conditional logic, integrate with external data sources, and automate complex communication tasks with a touch of humor.
Key Features
- Intelligent Email Filtering: Automatically identifies and processes emails from specific senders using conditional logic.
- Dynamic Excuse Generation: Generates unique, randomized excuses by combining data from a structured Excel spreadsheet.
- Automated Personalized Replies: Sends pre-formatted email responses with the generated excuse, complete with original subject line referencing.
- Cross-Platform Notifications: Keeps you informed through Slack, sending detailed updates for critical emails and general alerts for others.
- External Data Integration: Seamlessly reads and utilizes data from local Excel files (
.xlsx) for dynamic content creation.
How To Use
- Configure Email Credentials: Set up your IMAP and SMTP credentials (e.g., "Read Harvey's Mail", "Send Harvey's Mail") to enable email reading and sending.
- Set Up Slack Notifications: Provide your Slack API token (e.g., "Nathan's Slack API Token") to receive timely alerts.
- Prepare Your Excuse Database: Create an Excel spreadsheet (e.g.,
Excuse_Generator.xlsx) at/home/n8n/Excuse_Generator.xlsxwith columns namedLeadin,Perpetrator, andDelaycontaining your excuse phrases. - Customize Sender Detection: Update the
value2field in the "Who Is The Email From?" node to match the exact email address of the sender you wish to target (e.g.,Louis Litt <louis_litt_1970@yahoo.com>). - Adjust Excuse Logic (Optional): If your spreadsheet has a different number of rows for
Leadin,Perpetrator, orDelaysections, update theleadinmax,perpmax, anddelaymaxvariables in the "Generate Excuse" node accordingly.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "5614d646-ca27-44a0-bcea-96ad97978482",
"name": "Harvey Specter's Automated Email Excuse Generator",
"nodes": 19,
"category": "Personal",
"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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