[Action]: GCP: Send Email form Gmail Account

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Action Name

GCP send email from gmail account

Action Inputs

email_address
Subject
message

Action Outputs

ThreadID of the message

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can I send an email via GMAIL using the same library?
Yes, you can use the google-api-python-client library to send an email via Gmail. Here are the steps:

Follow steps 2-4 from the previous answer to create a set of credentials for the Gmail API.

In your Python code, import the necessary libraries:

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from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google.oauth2 import service_account
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError
Load the credentials from the JSON file:
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creds = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file('path/to/json/file.json', scopes=['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send'])
Note that you need to specify the gmail.send scope to be able to send emails.

Build the Gmail API service:
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service = build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=creds)
Create the message that you want to send:
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msg = MIMEText('This is the message body')
msg['to'] = 'recipient@example.com'
msg['subject'] = 'Test email from Python'
Replace recipient@example.com with the email address of the recipient.

Convert the message to a string:
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raw_msg = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(msg.as_bytes()).decode()
Send the message using the messages().send() method of the Gmail API service:
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try:
message = {'raw': raw_msg}
send_message = (service.users().messages().send(userId="me", body=message).execute())
print(F'The message was sent to: {send_message["threadId"]}')
except HttpError as error:
print(F'An error occurred: {error}')
send_message = None
Replace "me" with the email address of the sender. This code sends the message and prints the thread ID of the sent message. If there is an error, it prints the error message.

Note that sending email via Gmail API is subject to some limitations, such as the maximum number of recipients and the maximum number of messages that can be sent in a day. Be sure to check the Gmail API documentation for more information.

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