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"Summarize with Perplexity") Table of Contents - [How do you add an email template to a rule you already have?](#how-do-you-add-an-email-template-to-a-rule-you-already-have) - [What is an AI email rule template?](#what-is-an-ai-email-rule-template) - [Which way should exact text reach the recipient?](#which-way-should-exact-text-reach-the-recipient) - [When should a rule always send the same text?](#when-should-a-rule-always-send-the-same-text) - [What should a reviewer check before fixed text goes out?](#what-should-a-reviewer-check-before-fixed-text-goes-out) - [Frequently asked questions](#frequently-asked-questions) - [Takeaways](#takeaways) _An AI email rule template is the text an email rule must send word for word, such as a booking link or a required legal sentence, plus guidance for writing the rest of each reply. In Insulin’s Inbox, saving a rule whose description includes such text records it as the rule’s Email template, and a rule saved before email templates existed has none until you change its description and save it again._ * * * Start with the rules you already have. An Inbox rule saved before email templates existed has no template, however plainly its description spells out the booking link or the legal sentence. It can only get one when you change the description and click **Save** again. Renaming the rule doesn’t count, because changing only the name just renames it. Then decide how the exact text should travel. A rule can put words in front of a recipient three ways: written fresh by the AI for each email, through an Email template that keeps fixed blocks word for word, or with **Always send the same text**, which sends one saved reply verbatim. Below, the three sit side by side: what goes out, on which rule mode, and where a person can still change the words. For the parts of a rule this post doesn’t touch, [setting up email rules without writing code](/blog/email-rules-without-code/) covers the filter, the context and where the result goes. ## How do you add an email template to a rule you already have? **Change the rule’s description, save it again, then check Details.** A rule saved before email templates existed has none until you do, and **Save** is the step that records a template: one click turns your description into a structured rule and saves it. 1. Open **Settings → Rules** and select the rule. 2. Open **Details**. It shows the rule’s **Email template** only when the rule has one. 3. If there is none, edit the description so it quotes the exact text and says it must go out exactly as written, then click **Save**. Saving runs an AI model and takes a few seconds, so don’t refresh while it works. 4. Open **Details** again and compare each fixed block with your original, links and punctuation included. **Save** checks everything the rule needs before it writes anything. If a prerequisite is missing, such as an AI model or an enabled mailbox, Save fails and nothing is written, so the rule keeps running as it was. A rule set to **Send automatically** must also compile to one exact, narrowing condition, or Save refuses it with _Nothing was saved._ and the reason. ## What is an AI email rule template? **An AI email rule template is the fixed text a rule must send exactly as written, plus guidance for writing everything around it.** In Insulin’s Inbox it is the rule’s **Email template**, and **Details** shows it under _Fixed text goes out word for word; the rest is written for each recipient_: the fixed blocks first, then the guidance for writing the rest. There is no template field to fill in. The rule editor has two fields, a name and a plain-English description, so you write the exact text into the description and saving records it. The documentation’s own examples of text that must go out exactly as written are a booking link and a required legal sentence. Here is a description for Acme’s demo requests that carries both: > When someone asks for a demo of Acme Ledger, thank them, mention what they want to see, and end the reply with these two lines, exactly as written: “Pick a time that suits you: `https://book.acme.example/demo`” and “This email is confidential and intended only for the named recipient.” After **Save**, **Details** should show the two lines as fixed blocks and the rest as guidance. If a line is missing, reworded or merged into another sentence, write the description more plainly and save again. Details is read-only: to change the template, change the description. ## Which way should exact text reach the recipient? **Choose by how much of the reply may vary: all of it, everything but the fixed blocks, or none of it.** A rule’s **Email reply** has two modes, **Draft for review → Approvals queue**, the safe default, and **Send automatically**, and a rule does one or the other, never both. How the text travels What goes out Rule mode Where a person can still change it **Written fresh**: no wording is required A reply the AI writes for each email, in your writing style **Draft for review** or **Send automatically** In **Approvals ▸ Pending**, before **Send**. On **Send automatically**, only a reply held for review **Email template**: some lines are required, and the rest should fit the reader The fixed blocks word for word, and the rest written for each recipient from the template’s guidance **Draft for review** In **Approvals ▸ Pending**, before **Send**: any word, the fixed blocks included **Always send the same text**: nothing may vary Your saved reply, verbatim, on every matching email, with no model involved **Send automatically** only On the rule itself. A reply held for review waits in **Approvals ▸ Pending** The documentation leaves two cases open, so this post doesn’t fill them in. It doesn’t say how [Preview, the rule editor’s dry run](/blog/preview-an-inbox-rule/), shows an email template, or whether a reply an auto-send rule writes itself uses one. For an auto-send rule whose words must never vary, the documented verbatim path is **Always send the same text**. On a drafting rule, check the draft in **Approvals ▸ Pending** before **Send**. ## When should a rule always send the same text? **When the reply goes out without review and not one word may change.** **Always send the same text** is a tick-box under **Send automatically**: tick it, type a fixed reply, and that reply is sent verbatim on every matching email. A rule with pinned canned text involves no model at all, so there is no model to paraphrase it. Unticked, the AI writes a fresh reply for each email in your writing style, and a fixed check runs before that reply leaves. Among other things, the check holds a generated reply for review when its subject or body carries a link or email address that isn’t the sender’s own address or at the sender’s domain. So a generated reply carrying your booking link waits for review, unless the sender writes from the domain the link points to. Four more documented details apply to canned text: - **The subject still gets the check.** A canned reply’s body is your own text, but the subject it repeats from the incoming email gets the same check. If that trips, the reply waits in **Approvals ▸ Pending** with a note that the pre-send check flagged it. - **Asking the rule to look something up stops every send.** An auto-send rule that names context sources never sends: every reply it produces waits in **Approvals ▸ Pending** instead. - **One exact filter decides whether it fires.** The rule has to compile to a single condition on the sender’s address, the sender’s name, the subject or the body, and the AI never judges whether it applies. **Save** refuses anything that could match every email. - **It is written on the Rules page.** The Inbox chat rail creates rules from a plain-English request, but refuses to create one that sends automatically. Whether a rule should send without review at all is the earlier decision, and [when the Inbox app acts and when it asks](/blog/when-the-inbox-app-acts-or-asks/) works through which rules have earned it. ## What should a reviewer check before fixed text goes out? **That Details carries the text, and that a person reads each draft before Send.** On a drafting rule, the fixed text reaches a recipient only through someone who can still change it. - **Details, after each change to the description.** Every **Save** of a changed description turns it into the structured rule again, so read the **Email template** each time. - **The draft, in Approvals ▸ Pending.** The reply body is inline-editable and saves when you click away, so whoever approves can change any word, a fixed block included. **Send** opens a confirmation dialog before anything goes out, because sending can’t be undone. - **The copy in Gmail.** When the Gmail connection carries the `gmail.modify` permission, Insulin mirrors each AI draft into your Gmail **Drafts** folder, where a person can change the text as well. - **The record, afterwards.** For a reply someone approved, **Approvals ▸ History** records the subject, the recipients, and who pressed **Send** and when; the **Sent** view under **Mails** shows the mail itself. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is an AI email rule template? In Insulin’s Inbox, it is a rule’s Email template: text that must go out exactly as written, such as a booking link or a required legal sentence, plus guidance for writing the rest. Saving the rule records it, and Details shows the fixed blocks first. ### Why doesn’t my older rule have an email template? A rule saved before email templates existed has none until you change its description and save it again. Changing only the name just renames the rule. After saving, open Details and check each fixed block against your original, word for word. ### Will the AI keep my legal sentence word for word? That is what an Email template records: Details shows it under “Fixed text goes out word for word; the rest is written for each recipient.” On a drafting rule, a person reads the draft in Approvals ▸ Pending and can still change any word before Send. ### How do I auto-send the exact same reply every time? Set the rule’s Email reply to Send automatically, tick Always send the same text, and type the reply. It is sent verbatim on every matching email, with no model involved. The rule must compile to one exact condition on the sender, the subject or the body. ### Why did my canned auto-reply wait for review? Either the subject it repeats from the incoming email tripped the pre-send check, or the rule asks to look something up, and an auto-send rule with context sources never sends. Either way the reply waits in Approvals ▸ Pending. Nothing is lost; the send waits for you. ### Can a person change the fixed text before it’s sent? Yes, on a drafting rule. The reply body is inline-editable in Approvals ▸ Pending, so whoever approves can change any word, a fixed block included. Send then asks for confirmation before anything goes out, because sending can’t be undone. ## Takeaways - **Re-save older rules.** A rule saved before email templates existed has none until you change its description and save it again, and renaming it doesn’t count. - **Read Details after every change to the description.** The Email template shows the fixed blocks first, then the guidance for the rest. - **On a drafting rule, the person who approves has the last word.** Read the fixed text in Approvals ▸ Pending before Send. - **For an automatic reply where nothing may vary, tick Always send the same text.** No model is involved, but the repeated subject still gets the pre-send check, and a rule that looks anything up never sends. Exact wording is one part of a rule. To see how a plain-English rule turns into drafts you approve, start with [Insulin’s Inbox App for AI email and CRM automation](/inbox-app/). ## Sources Primary sources for the platform rules cited above. Last verified October 8, 2026. Cloud providers change fees, eligibility, and program terms without notice — check the source before relying on a figure. - [Insulin Inbox — Fours Doc](https://doc.fours.com/insulin/inbox/) — Save turning the description into a structured rule, running an AI model and taking a few seconds; the rule editor’s two fields; editing a rule by changing its description and saving again, and changing only the name just renaming it; Save failing with nothing written when a prerequisite is missing; Details as a read-only view that shows the rule’s Email template when it has one; text that must go out exactly as written, such as a booking link or a required legal sentence, recorded on Save as the Email template under “Fixed text goes out word for word; the rest is written for each recipient”, fixed blocks first and then the guidance; a rule saved before email templates existed having none until its description is changed and saved again; the two mutually exclusive Email reply modes; Always send the same text sending a fixed reply verbatim on every matching email, and the AI otherwise writing a fresh reply per email in your writing style; pinned canned text involving no model at all; an auto-send rule’s one exact filter, the AI never judging whether it applies, and Save’s refusal; context sources keeping every auto-send reply in Approvals ▸ Pending; the pre-send check on a generated reply, including a link or email address that is not the sender’s own address or at the sender’s domain, and on the subject a canned reply repeats, with the review note; auto-send rules written only on the Rules page; the inline-editable reply body in Approvals ▸ Pending, the Send confirmation, and History’s sent-email record; Gmail draft mirroring needing gmail.modify; and no description of how Preview shows an email template or of whether a reply an auto-send rule writes itself uses one ## Keep reading - [Inbox AppPreview an Inbox Rule Without Sending AnythingSep 28, 2026](/blog/preview-an-inbox-rule/) - [Inbox AppAuto-Draft a Follow-Up When a Deal Stage ChangesAug 18, 2026](/blog/crm-trigger-draft-reply-and-offer/) - [Inbox AppSetting Up Email Rules Without Writing CodeAug 16, 2026](/blog/email-rules-without-code/) - [Inbox AppHow AI Learns to Write in Your Own VoiceAug 14, 2026](/blog/ai-that-writes-in-your-voice/) [Browse every post on the Insulin Blog](/blog/) ### Stay Updated New posts, product updates and marketplace strategy are shared on LinkedIn as they publish. 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