Managing an E-mail Account | Google Apps Script for Beginners

Creating e-mail messages

There are two Google services available to send e-mails: Gmail app and MailApp. The latter has only methods to send e-mails, while we have seen that Gmail app can do much more! When simply sending a message, we can use either of them interchangeably; I used to type MailApp more frequently but it is nothing more than a personal habit.

The basic process is really simple as described in the documentation (example taken from Google documentation page):

// Send an email with a file from Google Drive attached as a PDF.
 var file = DriveApp.getFileById('1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz');
 GmailApp.sendEmail('[email protected]', 'Attachment example', 'Please see the attached file.', {
     attachments: [file.getAs(MimeType.PDF)],
     name: 'Automatic Emailer Script'
 });

In the optional parameters, you can use some interesting values as follows:

Attachments: These are an array of blobs (a blob is a data-interchange object for Apps Script services: https://developers.google...

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Google Apps Script for Beginners

By : Serge Gabet

Google Apps Script for Beginners

By: Serge Gabet

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Creating e-mail messages

Google Apps Script for Beginners

By : Serge Gabet

Google Apps Script for Beginners

By: Serge Gabet

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