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Checklist for When Email Triggers Do Not Activate
Checklist for When Email Triggers Do Not Activate

As of Jan 17, 2024

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📝 Overview

If the Flowbot does not initiate after sending or forwarding an email to the address configured by the email trigger, please refer to the following checklist.


🛠️ Confirmation Flow

1) The email trigger is not set to ON

If the trigger toggle is OFF in the Flowbot editing screen, the Flowbot will not initiate even if the settings are correct.
In this case, please turn the toggle ON as shown in the following screenshot.

2) The created email trigger address contains unsupported characters

The following characters are not supported in the receiving email address, and thus cannot be used:

  • Full-width characters

  • Spaces

  • Uppercase letters

If any of these characters are present, please correct them and try initiating again.

📍 Example:

  • An uppercase "T" is not allowed.

  • A lowercase "t" is acceptable.

3) The received email does not meet the specified trigger conditions

If the received email does not meet the conditions set in advance via the email trigger, the trigger will not initiate.

Please verify once again whether the received email meets the conditions. If necessary, modify the conditions accordingly.

📍 Example:

If the subject is set to include "[Yoom Inc.] Invoice," be aware that if there is a half-width space in the string (like "[Yoom Inc.] Invoice"), it will not match the condition.

4) The email forwarding settings are incorrect

It is possible to trigger the Flowbot by forwarding emails received at your current address to the trigger's receiving email address.

If there is an error in the forwarding process, the trigger will not activate.
Please double-check that the forwarding settings are correct.

👉 For Gmail forwarding settings, please refer to the following help page:
How to forward emails from Gmail and initiate the email trigger

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Email, Trigger, Email Trigger, Not working, Error, forwarding, conditions, Flowbot

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