Hi guys,
I’m trying to set up a flow that will automatically email from my gmail inbox to another email.
For example, whenever I receive an email that has the keyword [New Request] in my inbox, I want zapier to forward that to a new address. How can I do that?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi
Good question.
Try these Zap steps:
Hi Troy, thanks for jumping in. That’s how i have it set up, but for some reason it’s still not working. I tried to test it by “run zap”, it is still not working. Any idea why? Please see below for the screeshot
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Can you show a screenshot of an actual Gmail email that you are trying to match?
OBSERVATION
In step 2, you may want to add a space before the mapped variable.
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Try setting this as a trigger step search string:
subject:[I need oil change] in:inbox
I just updated the trigger step as you mentioned above. Did you want me to copy exactly what you wrote there?
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Did you test the new Zap trigger config?
Yes, when i tested, this is the email i got. But it’s no forwarding anything
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How is the Body of your Zap step 2 configured?
This looks like the email sent from Zap step 2.
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You may also not need a Zap for this if you use Gmail Forwarding Rules: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en
Here is how the body is set up in step 2. I want to you zapier because I want to add a step so that the chat gpt will write out certain things in the forward email for me.
I’m also confused because why the step 2 is working when I try to run the zap test, but its not picking up the original email when I send to the inbox?
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There is no Zap action to “forward” an email.
You can either:
In step 2, the Body is configured with a static message.
You would need to map variables from Zap Step 1 to send in the Body. (e.g. Body Plain or Body HTML)
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The Gmail trigger is NOT instant, meaning when the Zap is ON it can take from 1-15 minutes to trigger depending on your Zapier plan.
Do you mind showing me with how to map variables from Zap Step 1 to send in the Body. (e.g. Body Plain or Body HTML)?
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Same concept as with how you have the dynamic variable for “Subject” configured in Step 2.
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