Adam Norén has written a amazing app that triggers flows based on incomming emails. The problem is, I cannot get it to work. I installed it correctly but am unable to configure it. I keep getting “Invalid Credentials (Failure)” or “Timed out while authenticating with server” messages. I know for a f…

Hi @AdvaLa ! I successfully conneted and tested with my gmail account. The trick is, you should enable less secure apps in your Google account: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps When enabled you can try to login with your email address and your password. But this only work if you’re not …

Hello everyone, does the app work for homey 2023 for anyone? Has anyone contacted the developer or received an answer?

Hey Stefan, nope, the app does not work on Homey 2023. Unfortunately Adam Noren has not responded to anyone, including me, trying to reach him - this is why wrote this: Email - Trigger flows based on incoming emails - #65 by lukenukemmp3 I use webhooks for nearly all purposes now, called by a PHP…

Hi Adam @norenz Sorry to tag you like this. Can you please say anything about errors with the Email app on the Pro 2023? Anything we can do to help out? Thank you.

Thanks for your continued support in my quest. I don’t own a local webserver. Can I run the PHPMailer in Gmail as an alternative?

As for what exactly triggers the e-mail, here’s the following rule I have in Outlook.com — “if the from address is “"info@*******.com” AND subject line includes “New Request”, then forward to my Gmail.

Do I understand correctly that there is a form on a website that sends the mail to you? If so, can you additionally (or instead) let the form execute the PHP-script?

There’s no form on my end. I have no idea what my job uses to e-mail me stating there’s a new request available.

Okay, since you receive the mails in GMail - if I am on the right track here - you could use Google Apps Script for sending the webhook in dependency of the subject of the incoming mail. But all of this needs a little bit of coding. I will test something with my GMail Acc but this will need a few …

Unfortunately GMail Apps Script does not support a trigger for incoming mail. That given it would only be possible to call this script on a schedule. So how about the IFTTT-Trigger for incoming mails? You can try it yourself and measure the latency.

Would this be available if I use my Outlook instead of Gmail?

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Elmar April 10, 2026, 1:22pm 106

I just created this APP for it:

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