Choose between an account-wide or user-specific email address. Account-wide emails remain constant when transferring Zaps between team members. User-specific emails change with Zap ownership.

User-specific emails change with Zap ownership. Account-wide emails stay constant across team members.

In order to trigger when emails are opened, this must be paired with a separate Zap using the **Send Outbound Email** action, with the **Enable Read Receipts?** field set to `True`.

To test with a live email, send an email to yourself using your **Send Outbound Email** action (with read receipts enabled) and open it, then test this trigger immediately for samples. If you don't need to test with live data, click Skip Test to use static test data.

**Free, Trial, or Pro Zapier plan:**

 - Emails sent during [testing](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/18811411817741-Test-Zap-steps "https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/18811411817741-Test-Zap-steps") are sent to the [Zapier account email address](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496274581517-Change-your-Zapier-account-email-address "https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496274581517-Change-your-Zapier-account-email-address"). Once published, emails go to the intended recipients (To, CC, BCC).
 - Free and Trial plans: Maximum of 5 emails per account per day.
 - Pro plan: Maximum of 10 emails per account per hour.

**Team plan or higher:**

 - Test emails are sent to specified recipients.
 - You can send a maximum of 10 emails per account per hour.

Can be a comma separated list of emails. Limited to 5.

You can place HTML in here and we will send it as is. If this is plain text, we will try to convert it to some very basic HTML for greater client compatibility.

A file object to be attached to the email. Plain text content will converted into a txt file and attached. Please note, if the file is over ~10mb or so, you should explore using other email sending techniques (like Gmail or SMTP).

This will be your "display name" when sending. *Want to send from your own email address? Try Mailgun, IMAP, Mandrill or Gmail apps instead.*

Specify a reply address other than your own.

Set this to "yes" if your emails are received without line breaks or spacing.

Want to be notified when this email is opened? Set this to to `True` and set up a Zap using the `New Read Receipt` trigger.

Send and receive email via a custom Zapier email address at "zapiermail.com". This is great for triggering off of emails and sending custom emails. (Max of 10 email sends per hour.)

Have direct access to your own email servers? Check out our IMAP and SMTP services!

Email by Zapier

Select the AI model to use for generating responses. More advanced models offer better reasoning and larger context windows, but have the trade-off of longer response times and higher costs.

Enter the main text of your message. This is what the AI will respond to.

Provide guidance on how the AI should behave. For example, you can specify: "Answer formally" or "Provide detailed responses."

Set the maximum number of words/tokens the AI can generate in its response. Higher values allow longer answers.

Use advanced fields to refine your search and its results.

Enter what you want to search for. Use one line for a single query or multiple lines for several related queries.

Turn on advanced options to refine how Perplexity searches and filters results.

Perplexity is a search engine that uses AI to answer questions and provide information.

Perplexity

When you receive a new email in the Email by Zapier app, this workflow springs into action, running a seamless search in the Perplexity app. This streamlined process can help you quickly locate important information and optimize your workflow, saving you both time and effort. This is a simple yet effective solution for those looking to increase efficiency in their daily activities.

Email by Zapier + Perplexity

Search Perplexity with new inbound emails from Email by Zapier

Supported triggers and actions

New Inbound Email

Send Outbound Email

Search

New Read Receipt

Chat Completion

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