Yep - that’s what I suspected; emails inbound need to be filtered and treated like data and pushed into Airtable.
The way I do this falls into two categories of process logic:
- Use the integrated filtering mechanisms of Gmail to redirect messages from the inbox to a specific folder (i.e., labeling the messages).
- Use the body of the message to ferret out and understand if the message is a candidate for sending to Airtable.
In each case, Google Apps Script provides the automation process necessary to identify, parse, and format the incoming candidate messages and then post them as records to the Outreach Log. But, it may also be possible to use Zapier or Integromat to do this.
This is possible in most cases and depends largely on the nature of the content and the ability to craft filtering rules that are reliable.
Absolutely; it’s a simple matter of filtering.
