I'm getting frustrated with n8n, why can't it detect Labels for an incoming email in a certain email thread?

[bimabima]

The goal is for my AI agent to ONLY create a reply draft to a reply to an email I’ve sent that I have put a certain label on it.

How to make n8n detect the custom label I’ve created in a reply email that is in the labelled thread?

Context:

I’ve send an email to a receiver.
I labeled this email as “Availability”
I want that if this email thread got a reply from the receiver, my AI will help me create a reply draft.
AI will not create a draft for incoming emails that has no label.

Apprarently, the gmail trigger doesn’t detect he custome label, only these 4 default label…

If I put the label filter under the Gmail Trigger node like this:

Then it only return the email I sent to the receiver, not the email I receive from the receiver.

Appreciate the help!

WORKFLOW:

[Daniel_Lamphere]

Well that makes sense, becaue the email that the customer is sending to you, won’t be tagged. I would implement a step in front of this that determines if an email needs response, passes it to the next step, and applies the tag.

[bimabima]

Ah i see. Is there a way to make the gmail trigger node detect each email thread’s tag rather than each message I received?

So whenever I get a reply, as long as that reply is in the email thread that has the tag, it will read it the tag

[Daniel_Lamphere]

You could maybe query for the whole thread based on the message, that might include the tag, but not entirely sure your ask.

[bimabima]

Hmm I’ll try that and see if the get thread node will include the labels