IMAP Email Reply Detector & Automated Sequence Stopper
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Automatically detect incoming email replies via IMAP and intelligently stop ongoing sales or marketing sequences. This workflow ensures your contacts don't receive further automated messages after they've engaged, streamlining your communication and improving sender reputation.
About This Workflow
Elevate your outreach strategy with the IMAP Email Reply Detector & Automated Sequence Stopper. This powerful n8n workflow continuously monitors your mailbox for incoming replies, then uses sophisticated matching logic against your contact data stored in Google Sheets. Once a reply is detected and matched, the workflow automatically triggers actions to halt any active communication sequences, preventing irrelevant follow-ups. Perfect for sales teams, marketers, and customer success, it ensures timely, personalized interactions without manual intervention, saving valuable time and enhancing the recipient experience.
Key Features
- Automated Reply Detection: Continuously monitors your IMAP mailbox for new incoming email replies.
- Intelligent Contact Matching: Uses Google Sheets to dynamically match incoming replies to your existing contact records.
- Customizable Sequence Stopping Logic: Execute custom code to define when and how outreach sequences should be halted.
- Google Sheets Integration: Seamlessly read and update contact statuses directly within your Google Sheets.
- Prevent Over-Communication: Automatically pauses or stops outreach sequences upon receiving a reply, ensuring a respectful and relevant communication flow.
How To Use
- Configure Email Trigger (IMAP): Connect your IMAP email account and specify the folder to monitor for incoming replies.
- Customize 'Track replies' Code: Adapt this code node to parse relevant information from the incoming emails, such as sender, subject, and message ID for matching.
- Set Up 'SMART MATCHING' (Google Sheets): Configure this node to connect to your Google Sheet containing contact details and sequence status. Define how to look up contacts based on extracted email information.
- Customize 'AUTO-STOP SEQUENCES' Code: Modify this code node to implement your specific logic for stopping sequences (e.g., integrating with a CRM API, marking a flag in Google Sheets, etc.).
- Configure 'Update Record' (Google Sheets): Set up this node to update the matched contact's status in your Google Sheet, marking them as 'replied' or 'sequence stopped' to prevent further automated communication.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "17399c80-42aa-45a8-9864-8d11daa00a96",
"name": "IMAP Email Reply Detector & Automated Sequence Stopper",
"nodes": 7,
"category": "Sales",
"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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