Hi,
This is probably a two-in-one question. If it’s better to separate it, let me know and I will do that.
My problem: I’m trying to supplement my Thunderbird filters because they’re not working properly and I have so many emails that I’m beginning to miss some of them. So I would like to create one flow that can monitor many different IMAP mailboxes, classify messages, and tag them if possible, though that last part doesn’t really work on IMAP as I understand it. I’m not on Google or Outlook.
My questions:
- If I put multiple IMAP triggers in the same workflow, will it work? That is, if I set each of them to run at a certain time, will it be the equivalent of running multiple cron jobs? I suspect so, but just in case I’m misunderstanding.
- My understanding is that the IMAP node fetches all unread emails unless I use some sort of filter. So if I expect more than one message to come through, I need to use a loop or something right after the trigger to handle each message individually. Otherwise, it will process one message at a time every time it’s run. Is my understanding correct?
- I will want to move messages from the inbox to another folder. I understand that the IMAP node (or the email node) doesn’t do that. So I’m looking at the community node n8n-nodes-imap for that. Is there a better approach? Is there anything to be aware of when I do this?
Thanks,
L