Gmail Integration [PARTLY CREATED]

ajayjohn · January 24, 2020, 4:47pm

It would be awesome if we had a gmail integration in n8n! There are various use-cases that can be supported. Some examples include…

Fetching unread/starred emails for actions.
Sending out emails as actions to other nodes.
Triggering actions when emails from certain senders arrive.

RicardoE105 · January 24, 2020, 5:08pm

Yeah that would be a great integration. Sadly the Gmail API just supports OAuth authentication which is not yet supported by n8n. When the hosted version is ready ( hopefully soon ) we will work on it. @ajayjohn

ajayjohn · January 26, 2020, 7:37pm

I see. Forgive my ignorance, but is this due to a limitation in having Oauth working via self-signed certificates? Is there any way Oauth based platforms could work for self-hosted instances at all?

RicardoE105 · January 26, 2020, 7:50pm

As far as I know yes, but you would have to register you “app” in each platform you want to use Oauth to be able to get a client_id and client_secret and set the redirect url which will make it really tedious. @ajayjohn

ajayjohn · January 26, 2020, 7:54pm

I see. This doesn’t seem like what most users would want to do. So it makes sense to handle this via the hosted version of n8n.
Eventually though, it would be nice to have a node that advanced users can use if they know their way around creating these credentials from Google API portal

jan · January 26, 2020, 8:04pm

Btw. you should for now be able to handle the most via IMAP and SMTP and so these nodes:

https://n8n.io/nodes/n8n-nodes-base.emailReadImap

Make however sure to use the ubuntu-docker images. The default ones based on alpine make problems with the encryption.

ajayjohn · January 26, 2020, 10:06pm

Thanks for that! This should help

jan · January 26, 2020, 10:08pm

Great, if you have any problems simply get back to me.

Anyway still hope we will get proper and native GMail support “soonish”.

ajayjohn · June 6, 2020, 4:53pm

Now that OAuth authentication is supported, could you please add this to your roadmap, so that Gmail via OAuth is possible, as opposed to using IMAP/SMTP?

RicardoE105 · June 7, 2020, 12:16pm

@ajayjohn Just added this to the backlog.

jan · August 18, 2020, 3:47pm

GMail-Node got released with [email protected]

Thanks a lot @erin2722 for creating it!

huuich · October 31, 2020, 8:48am

@jan @erin2722 Gmail Node has some error with Unicode text in email subject, when creating an email subject like this

Text is ok in subject

But when I’ve send this mail, the mail’s subject is not ok, mail’s body is ok like this

Please check!

jan · October 31, 2020, 12:05pm

Thanks a lot for reporting this. This is a bug and we will have a look. But please report the next bug by creating an issue on GitHub or create a new topic here in the forum. This topic is only about the creation of the node. Thanks!

jan · November 2, 2020, 9:51pm

The problem got fixed with:
https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/pull/1121

It will be released with the next version.

jan · November 4, 2020, 3:41pm

Fix got released with [email protected]

Josh_Fialkoff · December 2, 2020, 2:11am

Is it possible to retrieve the subject text of emails with a specific label?

RicardoE105 · December 2, 2020, 2:30am

@Josh_Fialkoff something like this should do it.

Markus · January 8, 2021, 12:26pm

Could you add support for authentication with service account?

RicardoE105 · January 8, 2021, 8:49pm

@Markus got added. We will let you know when is released.

jan · January 15, 2021, 11:26am

Got released with [email protected]