Bridge Gmail and iMessage with Blooio and log conversations to Close

Email ↔ iMessage Bridge (via Blooio + Gmail)

A 2-branch bidirectional bridge. Email a customer from Close (or any CRM) — they get a blue-bubble iMessage. They reply on iPhone — it lands in your Gmail with the phone number in the subject. Reply in Gmail — it goes back out as iMessage. No database, no state store. The subject IS the routing table.

How it works

• ⏰ 📬 Gmail Trigger polls a dedicated bridge inbox every minute for new outbound email
• 🔍 IF node validates the subject contains a phone number (\+?\d{10,15}) — drops everything else
• 🧹 Set node extracts the phone from the subject and strips HTML + quoted reply chains from the body
• 💬 Blooio Messaging node sends the cleaned text as iMessage to the extracted phone
• 📡 Blooio Webhook fires on message.received — inbound iMessages arrive in real-time
• 📧 Set node builds a consistent subject iMessage from +15551234567, Gmail Send delivers to your main inbox with Reply-To set back to the bridge — so your reply re-enters Branch 1
• 🗂️ In parallel, the workflow looks up the lead in Close by phone and logs the inbound iMessage as an email activity — attaches it to the lead timeline AND triggers Close Sequence exit

The 2 branches

Why this matters

Sales teams using SMS or iMessage close ~3× faster than email-only follow-up, but every minute spent app-switching erodes that edge. This workflow keeps the speed AND the inbox you already live in.

What you need

⚠️ Blooio P2P notice: Blooio is opt-in only. Perfect for replies to inbound traffic and warm conversations. Cold outreach requires explicit consent per Blooio ToS.

Set up steps

• Takes about 20 minutes
• Create a dedicated bridge Gmail account (e.g. [email protected]) — keep its inbox clean, this workflow watches it
• Sign up at blooio.com, activate a warmed iMessage number, grab the API Bearer token
• Branch 1 — connect bridge Gmail credential to Gmail Trigger, connect Blooio credential to Send iMessage via Blooio
• Branch 2 — copy the Blooio Webhook production URL, register it in the Blooio dashboard for message.received, connect bridge Gmail credential to Send Email via Gmail, replace the <__USER_MAIN_INBOX__...__> and <__BRIDGE_GMAIL_ADDRESS__...__> placeholders with your real addresses
• (Optional Close logging) Bind a Close API Bearer token credential to both Close: Find Lead by Phone and Close: Log Inbound iMessage — or delete those 3 nodes if you don't use Close
• Test outbound: email the bridge inbox with subject +1YOURPHONE - test → confirm iMessage hits your phone
• Test inbound: text the Blooio number from your phone → confirm an email lands in your main inbox with subject iMessage from +1YOURPHONE
• Test the loop: reply to that email → confirm a second iMessage arrives
• Toggle workflow Active

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