Automatically mail sending one gmail to another
You can use the Gmail API to send an email from one Gmail account to another using a script. Here's an example of how you can do it using Python and the google-api-python-client
library:
Step 1: Enable the Gmail API
- Go to the Google Cloud Console and create a new project.
- Enable the Gmail API by clicking on "Enable APIs and Services" and searching for "Gmail API".
- Click on "Gmail API" and then click on the "Enable" button.
Step 2: Create credentials for your script
- Go to the "Navigation menu" (three horizontal lines in the top left corner) and click on "APIs & Services" > "Credentials".
- Click on "Create Credentials" and then select "OAuth client ID".
- Select "Other" as the application type and enter a name for your client ID.
- Click on "Create" and copy the client ID and client secret.
Step 3: Install the required libraries
- Install the
google-api-python-client
library by running the following command:pip install google-api-python-client
- Install the
oauth2client
library by running the following command:pip install oauth2client
Step 4: Write the script
Here's an example script that sends an email from one Gmail account to another:
import base64
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
# Replace with your Gmail account credentials
GMAIL_USERNAME = '[email protected]'
GMAIL_PASSWORD = 'your_password'
# Replace with the recipient's email address
RECIPIENT_EMAIL = '[email protected]'
# Create credentials
creds = Credentials.get_credentials()
creds.refresh_token = creds.get_token()
# Create the Gmail API client
service = build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=creds)
# Create a message
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = GMAIL_USERNAME
msg['To'] = RECIPIENT_EMAIL
msg['Subject'] = 'Test email'
# Add the email body
body = 'This is a test email sent using the Gmail API.'
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))
# Convert the message to a base64-encoded string
raw_message = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(msg.as_string().encode('utf-8'))
# Send the email
service.users().messages().send(userId='me', body={'raw': raw_message.decode('utf-8')}).execute()
Step 5: Run the script
- Save the script to a file (e.g.
send_email.py
) and run it using Python:python send_email.py
The script will send an email from your Gmail account to the recipient's email address.
Note: Make sure to replace the GMAIL_USERNAME
, GMAIL_PASSWORD
, and RECIPIENT_EMAIL
variables with your actual Gmail account credentials and the recipient's email address. Also, be aware that this script uses the Gmail API to send emails, so you'll need to ensure that your Gmail account is configured to allow less secure apps to access your account.