Hi all, i’m trying to create a flow that sends an e-mail to 5 separate addresses one at a time until someone replies with a subject of “Ack”.
In my industry we call this an alarm dialer and it’s typically done via phone line or sms.
I need a way to pause the sending of each e-mail by 5 minutes or so and then continue down the list until someone replies.
I’ve got a way to change the addresses via text_input and have the email receive node setup to look for an email with the “Ack” subject. After that i’m a bit stumped as to where to go.
You could use a script to send those mails with a delay between in
With that email content sensor, if ack received, you can kill the running script in your automation
I’d use the stoptimer node for that. With conditions to check if the email was answered. This can then also trigger a cancel message to the stoptimer node to the stop timer and stop further emails from being sent.
Thanks for the tips. Here’s what I ended up with so far.
The flow keeps repeating until someone replies to the e-mail. I will eventually add a counter so it can only repeat the whole process twice.
Next up might be incorporating Nexmo or Twillo to use SMS instead of e-mail.
