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AI Email processing autoresponder with approval (Yes/No)

Configured with Agent, Chain Summarization, Email Read Imap, Email Send, and additional nodes. Review the connections and setup before adapting this template.

Workflow preview
MessagingEmail Trigger (IMAP)Email Read ImapTransformMarkdownMarkdownAI & modelsDeepSeek R1OpenAI Chat ModelMessagingSend EmailEmail SendData storeQdrant Vector StoreVector Store QdrantAI & modelsEmbeddings OpenAIEmbeddings Open AiAI & modelsEmail SummarizationChainChain SummarizationAI & modelsWrite emailAgentAI & modelsOpenAIOpenAI Chat ModelTransformSet EmailEdit FieldsRoutingApprove?IfMessagingSend DraftGmail

Node categories in this workflow

  • Messaging
  • Transform
  • AI & models
  • Data store
  • Routing

Icons describe general node roles, inferred from node types. Inspect the parameters for the configured action.

Drag to pan; use + and − to zoom. Reconstructed from the exported node positions; nothing runs here. Dashed lines represent non-main connections. Full node names and notes appear below.

How it works

The exported workflow contains the following configured nodes. Their connections are shown above; inspect the JSON for the complete logic, expressions, and external actions.

Workflow node names, types, and operations
NodeCategoryTypeOperation
Email Trigger (IMAP)MessagingEmail Read ImapSee node parameters
MarkdownTransformMarkdownSee node parameters
DeepSeek R1AI & modelsOpenAI Chat ModelSee node parameters
Send EmailMessagingEmail SendSee node parameters
Qdrant Vector StoreData storeVector Store QdrantSee node parameters
Embeddings OpenAIAI & modelsEmbeddings Open AiSee node parameters
Email Summarization ChainAI & modelsChain SummarizationSee node parameters
Write emailAI & modelsAgentSee node parameters
OpenAIAI & modelsOpenAI Chat ModelSee node parameters
Set EmailTransformEdit FieldsSee node parameters
Approve?RoutingIfSee node parameters
Send DraftMessagingGmailsendAndWait

Setup

  1. Download the JSON and import it into an isolated n8n instance. Leave the workflow inactive.
  2. Connect your own credentials through n8n’s credential store. Replace REPLACE_WITH_* values with your resource identifiers.
  3. Inspect API destinations, Code nodes, database queries, file paths, and outbound actions.
  4. Run with synthetic data and harmless destinations. Enable triggers only after checking the actual outputs.

Requirements

An n8n instance with the listed node types and compatible versions. Service-connected workflows may require accounts, credentials, or paid APIs.

Credential types declared in the source

  • gmailOAuth2
  • imap
  • openAiApi
  • qdrantApi
  • smtp

Workflow notes

Main Flow

Main Flow

Preliminary step:

Create a vector database on Qdrant and tokenize the documents useful for generating a response

How it works

This workflow is designed to automate the process of handling incoming emails, summarizing their content, generating appropriate responses with RAG, and obtaining approval (YES/NO button) before sending replies.

This workflow is designed to handle general inquiries that come in via corporate email via IMAP and generate responses using RAG. You can quickly integrate Gmail and Outlook via the appropriate trigger nodes

Sticky Note1

Convert email to Markdown format for better understanding of LLM models

Sticky Note2

Chain that summarizes the received email

Sticky Note3

Agent that retrieves business information from a vector database and processes the response

IMPORTANT

IMPORTANT

For the "Send Draft" node, you need to send the draft email to a Gmail address because it is the only one that allows the "Send and wait for response" function.

AI Email processing autoresponder with approval (Yes/No)

AI Email processing autoresponder with approval (Yes/No)

Purpose and structure

This folder contains the AI Email processing autoresponder with approval (Yes/No) workflow. Its executable nodes use agent, chainSummarization, emailReadImap, emailSend, embeddingsOpenAi, gmail, if, lmChatOpenAi, markdown, set, vectorStoreQdrant. The table and connection map below are derived from the JSON, not an inferred guarantee of behavior.

Setup

Import inactive. Configure your own credentials and replace REPLACE_WITH_* values. Review external destinations and Code nodes before running.

Entry points

Inspect connections; no recognized trigger.

Verification

Sanitized source candidate; not runtime-tested. This overview is generated from node metadata. Read the folder README for the connection map, credential types, and license.

Attribution

https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows/blob/94007c1445d9258a7da116646b79473e7c7c3282/workflows/Emailreadimap/1588_Emailreadimap_Markdown_Send.json MIT; preserve source notices.

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