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<h1 class="title">Respond to Email Notifications to Take Action in Help Scout</h1>
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<p>Email notifications can keep you up-to-date with what's happening in Help Scout, even when you're not actively logged in to the app! This article explains how our email notifications work and what you can do with them right from your email. </p>
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<h4>In this article</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="#responding">Work With Email Notifications</a></li>
<li><a href="#ecommands">Email Commands for Notifications</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
<p>Help Scout sends an email notification to you when certain events take place on a conversation, based on your notification settings. These notifications are sent to the email address you use to log in to Help Scout. You can control the notifications you receive in your profile settings — see <a href="//docs.helpscout.com/article/696-manage-help-scout-notifications">Manage Help Scout Notifications</a> for more details on the options available.</p>
<p>Reply to an email notification to take action on the conversation without having to log in to Help Scout. You can add a reply to the conversation right from your email — this will add a reply in Help Scout <em>and</em> send that reply to the customer from your Help Scout Inbox — or add a note for only your team to see in Help Scout. You can also change the assignment, status, add tags, and more, all right from your email.</p>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> Help Scout email notifications are unique to the User and the conversation. <em>Only</em> the person who received the notification can reply to it. In other words, you can't forward your email notification to another User or a third-party for them to take action on.</p>
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<h2 id="responding">Work With Email Notifications </h2>
<p>When you receive an email notification, you just need to reply to it like any other email in your inbox to take action on that conversation in Help Scout. </p>
<p>But heads up: What action you take <em>by default</em> can change depending on what kind of notification it is. You'll want to pay close attention to what kind of notification you're working with to make sure you're reaching the audience you want to. </p>
<h4 id="anatomy"> The Anatomy of an Email Notification</h4>
<p>First up, let's break down what the email notifications look like and what information you'll have there. Below is an email notification that was sent to Josie when Angela mentioned her on a conversation. </p>
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1
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The subject of the email notification will alert you to what kind of notification it is in some cases, and let you know the conversation number the notification is regarding.
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<dt>
2
</dt>
<dd>
This line will tell you what action replying to this notification will take by default. Replying to an @mention notification will default to adding a note to the conversation. Replying to many other notifications will result in
<em>adding a reply to the customer</em> instead.
<br>
<br> Always make sure you know which action you're taking by checking this line!
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3
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<dd>
Conversation information is always included! You can see what Inbox the conversation was in when the notification was generated, the action that generated the notification, the conversation number linked to the conversation in Help Scout, and the most recent conversation history for reference.
</dd>
</dl>
<h4>Reply to an Email Notification</h4>
<p>Reply just as you would to any email you've received. It's really that easy! </p>
<p>Make sure you're taking note of which action you're doing by default, as mentioned in item #2 above, and then check out <a href="#ecommands">the email commands</a> for the full list of actions you can take in a reply to a notification. </p>
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<h2 id="ecommands">Email Commands for Notifications</h2>
<h4>Important Notes:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Make sure to note what action your reply will take — replies to some notifications will create a note, replies to other notifications will send a reply to the customer. Every notification will have a line that tells you what your reply will do. See the <a href="#anatomy">breakdown of a notification above</a> for help there. </li>
<li>When replying to an email notification that creates a reply to the customer, any text entered and sent will be visible to the customer. Use the <strong>@note</strong> command to add a note, which is visible to your team members only. It's not possible to reply to the customer <em>and</em> add a note at the same time — if you need to do both, you'll need to reply to the notification 2 separate times, one with a customer reply, one with a note. </li>
<li><p>When using <strong>@note</strong> with other commands, the content of the note must be entered immediately after <strong>@note</strong>, with no other commands in between. Example: </p><p><img src="//d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/524448053e3e9bd67a3dc68a/images/5fdcfc610b11ce44f6393bab/file-SO7GrzKB7t.png" style="width: 393px; max-width: 100%; "></p></li>
<li> The only email address that should be in the email from your email client when you reply to a notification or manually forward an email is the <em>Help Scout address</em>; do not include any CC or BCC addresses on the email reply itself. Use the <strong>@cc</strong> or <strong>@bcc</strong> commands to add other email addresses to the conversation in Help Scout. </li>
</ul>
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<td> <text> </td>
<td> text with no command is sent as a reply to the customer </td>
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<td> @note </td>
<td> notes are visible only to other Help Scout Users </td>
</tr>
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<td> @assign </td>
<td> first/full name of another user, email address of another user, full name of a Team (requires the <a href="//docs.helpscout.com/article/594-create-and-manage-teams">Teams</a> feature) </td>
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<td class="cm"> @me </td>
<td> no value required, assigns to yourself </td>
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<td> @status </td>
<td> active, pending, closed, spam </td>
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<tr>
<td> @active, @pending, @closed, @spam </td>
<td> no value required, sets the status accordingly </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> @tag </td>
<td> add one or more tags, each separated by a comma </td>
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<td> @cc </td>
<td> any valid email address, separate multiple with commas (note: should not be used alongside @note) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> @bcc </td>
<td> any valid email address, separate multiple with commas </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> @subject </td>
<td> whatever you want the new subject to be </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> @nocc </td>
<td> Help Scout is "Reply All" by default, but you can use this command to remove any Cc'd parties on the reply. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> @nobcc </td>
<td> If auto bcc is enabled in your user profile, use this command to prevent it from applying to a specific message. </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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