New Email

The New Email trigger starts a workflow when the connected Gmail account receives a new inbox message. It can limit runs to subjects containing specific text and provides parsed message bodies, attachments, and headers.

Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
Google Account	Google account	Yes	Gmail inbox to watch.
Subject Filter	String	No	Required text within the subject. Matching is case-sensitive.

Leave Subject Filter empty to accept every qualifying new inbox message. The trigger only dispatches messages addressed to the watched mailbox.

Trigger data

Output	Type	Description
Message ID	String	Gmail ID of the message.
Thread ID	String	Gmail conversation ID.
Sender Name	String	Parsed sender display name, when present.
Sender Address	String	Parsed sender email address, when present.
Subject	String	Message subject.
Plain Text	String	Plain-text MIME content, when present.
HTML	String	HTML MIME content, when present.
Is Reply?	Boolean	Whether the message has an `In-Reply-To` header.
Attachments	List of files	Files downloaded from the message.
Headers	Object of strings	Lowercase email-header names mapped to their values.

Message formats vary. Plain Text, HTML, sender name, or attachments can be empty when the source message does not contain them.

Example: triage a support inbox

Gmail: New Email
  Subject Filter = [Support]
  → Remove Reply Text
  → Classify message
  → Draft Reply

Troubleshooting

A matching email did not trigger

The filter is case-sensitive. Confirm the message arrived in the watched account’s Inbox after the trigger was configured and that the subject contains the exact filter text.

A message sent by the workflow did not trigger

WorkflowDog-authored mail sent back to the same watched account is excluded from this incoming trigger to avoid self-triggering loops.

Sent EmailStart a workflow when the connected Gmail account sends a message.

Overview

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HTTP

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Configuration

Trigger data

Example: triage a support inbox

Troubleshooting

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Configuration

Trigger data

Example: triage a support inbox

Troubleshooting