I want to use ChatGPT to read and summarize emails in my inbox based on a specific date range and sender. My email account is with Zimbra, not Gmail, so typical integrations like Zapier aren’t working for me. I’m not looking for real-time triggers or to forward emails to a parser service. I want to analyze emails already in my inbox when I ask for it. Is there a way to make this work?
If Zimbra supports exporting emails, you could export the messages you want, combine them into a file, and upload it for ChatGPT to analyze. It’s not fully automated but could work as a workaround.
Jordan said:
If Zimbra supports exporting emails, you could export the messages you want, combine them into a file, and upload it for ChatGPT to analyze. It’s not fully automated but could work as a workaround.
I’ve done this with lawsuits. It took about 15 minutes to export emails, combine them into a PDF, and then ask ChatGPT to summarize the content.
Check if Zimbra has an API that allows you to fetch emails. You could build a custom tool to extract emails by date range or sender, then pass the data to ChatGPT for summarizing.
yer said:
Check if Zimbra has an API that allows you to fetch emails. You could build a custom tool to extract emails by date range or sender, then pass the data to ChatGPT for summarizing.
Good idea. Using the API would make the process smoother, but you’d need some coding knowledge to set it up.
Zapier might not support Zimbra directly, but some middleware tools can bridge the gap. You could set up a custom integration to fetch emails and pass them to ChatGPT.
Another option is to use a third-party tool to parse and filter emails locally. You could export filtered emails and analyze them with ChatGPT afterward.
For now, manual export might be your best bet if automation is too complex. Export the emails you need and structure them for analysis in ChatGPT.