Reply to outreach responses from email and LinkedIn inboxes

As described in the source, one commenter said they switched from Claude Code to Claude Cowork and connected it to their Gmail or Apollo-sent mailbox through MCP, plus enrichment tools covering Apollo, Clay, Zero Bounce, LinkedIn, and LinkedIn Jobpost. Claude Cowork scanned email every 10 minutes and LinkedIn inboxes through Phantombuster every 60 minutes, then replied to outreach responses or expressions of interest automatically. The thread gives no hard numbers for this specific setup, only that the commenter uses it to answer interested replies from email and LinkedIn.

Agent or tool: Claude Cowork
Topic: Email & Inbox
Reported on: Reddit
Added: 2026-10-15

Why it matters

Email is where a lot of admin quietly piles up. An agent that can read, sort, draft and follow up turns an inbox from a to-do list into something closer to a summary. It is one of 106 sightings filed under Email & Inbox on Agent Sightings (number 42 by interest), and one of 33 involving Claude Cowork.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Claude Cowork or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

Go through my mail for this goal: reply to outreach responses from email and LinkedIn inboxes. Propose labels, drafts, and unsubscribes as a checklist; change nothing until I approve.

Tip: Start with read-only access or 'draft, don't send', and check a few drafts before trusting it to send anything.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/coldemail/comments/1vbwh4o/anyone_actually_using_claud…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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