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You built an email agent. It sends a message. The person replies hours later. Your agent forgets. It treats the reply as a new chat. This gap stops most agents.
Close this gap with four steps.
- Detection: Use the thread ID to find the conversation.
- Context: Fetch the full message. Do not trust the webhook.
- Routing: Use a state machine. Know what the agent waits for.
- Response: Use a reply ID to keep the thread together.
Production tips:
- Filter out sent mail. Webhooks fire for your own messages too.
- Handle double replies. People often send two emails.
- Add a cooldown. Wait a minute before responding.
- Stop duplicates. Webhooks send the same event twice.
This loop turns a bot into a conversational agent.
Wire up a webhook to a test mailbox. Send an email. Watch the thread ID connect the dots.
Source: https://dev.to/qasim157/handling-email-replies-in-an-agent-loop-40bj Optional learning community: https://t.me/GyaanSetuAi