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How do I use Smart Follow-ups?

Smart Follow-Ups uses Email Tracking insights to identify emails that may require your attention.

Written by Julia

💡 Good to know: Mailbutler highlights sent emails that haven't received a reply and may benefit from a follow-up.


Step 1: Customize your follow-up settings

Go to Account & PreferencesGeneral to adjust your Follow-up Settings and control when follow-up recommendations are generated.


Step 2: Send tracked emails

Send your emails with Email Tracking enabled.


Step 3: Review your follow-up recommendations

  1. Open the Mailbutler Sidebar:

    👉 Gmail

    👉 Outlook

  2. Open the Email Tracking widget to view recommended follow-ups.

Recommendations are grouped by urgency:

High

Medium

Low

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Step 4: Manage your follow-ups

From the Smart Follow-Ups widget, you can:

Mark an email for follow-up
Dismiss a recommendation
Mark a follow-up as completed


Step 5: Write follow-up emails with AI

Open a recommended follow-up and let AI draft your follow-up email directly from the widget.

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