📊 Send legal AI news digests from IMAP email with OpenAI, Tavily, and Gmail

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Description

Quick overview

Monitor an inbox, keep only emails about AI in the legal industry (or any topic), research each topic with web search, and email a branded HTML digest.

How it works

1. A schedule trigger polls an IMAP mailbox every few hours for unread emails.
2. Each message is extracted and passed to an agent that scores it for relevance
3. Irrelevant emails are filtered out and the source message is deleted from the inbox
4. Relevant Emails are added to the digest
5. An email summary is sent to the recipient

Setup

1. Install the community nodes n8n-nodes-imap and @tavily/n8n-nodes-tavily (Settings → Community Nodes).
2. Add credentials for IMAP, OpenAI, Tavily, and Gmail OAuth2.
3. Set the recipient address in the Gmail — Send Digest node.
4. Optionally adjust the polling interval and the IMAP mailbox path
5. Set the cadence for you email digest

Requirements

• IMAP, OpenAI, Tavily, and Gmail OAuth2 credentials
• ⚠️ Uses the n8n-nodes-imap and @tavily/n8n-nodes-tavily community nodes and requires a self-hosted n8n instance.

Customization

• Change the polling frequency in the Schedule node.
• Rewrite the topic list in OpenAI Agent — Score Relevance to target a different industry or subject.
• Swap Gmail for another email node, or point the IMAP node at a specific subfolder.

Additional info

Support is available at support@ais.email

🔗 Nodes Used

Gmail, Schedule Trigger, Filter, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup