Sends an email from the user's Gmail account.
class GmailApp method .sendEmail()
GmailApp is the Apps Script service.
.sendEmail() is the method name you will see after a dot in your code.
What it does
Why it's used
- Email a finished report or alert straight from a spreadsheet button.
- Notify the team when a trigger spots a threshold breach.
Common errors
- Forgetting parentheses on sendEmail. Write GmailApp.sendEmail(), not GmailApp.sendEmail or sendEmail by itself.
- Skipping dots between chained calls. Each step needs a dot, like GmailApp.search('label:inbox').sendEmail().
- Adding spaces where they do not belong. Write GmailApp.sendEmail(), not GmailApp .sendEmail(), GmailApp.sendEmail (), or GmailApp . sendEmail().
- Wrong capitalization. Use GmailApp and sendEmail, not gmailapp or sendemail.
Snippets using this method
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- Proof of Life
- I Created an Automatic Emailer
- How To Send Two Emails in Same Trigger
- Email Certain Department Based on Google Form Entries
- Create an Automated Task List
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- Automate Form Response to Confirmation Email
- Automated Project Management in Google Sheets
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Related methods
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.getAliases()
Returns the email addresses the user can send from.
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.createLabel()
Creates a new Gmail label.
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.createDraft()
Creates a draft email without sending it.
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.getUserLabelByName()
Finds a Gmail label by its name.
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.search()
Finds Gmail threads that match a search query.
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