# Composing email

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [February 22, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280 "2023-02-22T08:08:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![madhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@madhu](https://community.glideapps.com/u/madhu)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280/1 "2023-02-22T08:08:49Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I have Q&A forum, where i want to send a email to the person who has asked the question, after the question gets more than 3 answers. Can anyone help me with this.

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Davies](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/andrew_davies/32/41838_2.png) [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 8:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280/2 "2023-02-22T08:15:47Z")

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One of the Glide experts will provide a better answer than me - but this should be possible with a count field and some automations.

However - my approach to this would be using Airtable as the backend as their automations I find my powerful.

Another option, if you don’t want to use Airtable, could be to use Make (Integromat) which connects to loads of email services.

But Glide experts may have a better answer

Andrew

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**Author:** ![madhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@madhu](https://community.glideapps.com/u/madhu)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280/3 "2023-02-22T08:20:21Z")

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@Andrew_Davies Sure, Thank you for you response.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280/4 "2023-02-22T15:12:52Z")

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> [@Andrew\_Davies](#):
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> this should be possible with a count field and some automations.

I think this is the way to go. I assume you’re using a form for people to submit answers.

- Create a relation from the questions table to the answers table, make it a multiple match.

- Use a rollup to count the total number of answers.

- Create a single relation from the answers table to the questions table.

- Use a lookup to get back the total number of answers.

- Trigger an on-submit email action when the total number of answers (lookup field) equals 4 (so you won’t send it on the 5th, 6th, etc answer).

The reason I used a two-sided solution is to avoid a self-relation on the same table, which might contribute to a decrease in performance based on some threads in this forum. I’m not absolutely sure if the lookup value will be available that fast for the on-submit action, though.

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**Author:** ![madhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@madhu](https://community.glideapps.com/u/madhu)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280/5 "2023-02-23T12:42:49Z")

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Thank you so much it worked.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-email/58280/6 "2023-02-24T12:43:44Z")

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