I want to dynamically change the name that shows up in the recipients mailbox (appears on the left of the subject + content of the email).
No matter what I try, the name always ends up as 'info', and the 'from' address is always 'info@g-suite-domain'
Following is the code I'm using.
import argparse
import base64
import os
import sys
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from apiclient import errors
from google.oauth2 import service_account
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from httplib2 import Http
def create_message(sender, to, subject, message_text):
"""Create a message for an email.
Args:
sender: Email address of the sender.
to: Email address of the receiver.
subject: The subject of the email message.
message_text: The text of the email message.
Returns:
An object containing a base64url encoded email object.
"""
message = MIMEText(message_text, 'html')
message['to'] = to
message['from'] = sender
message['subject'] = subject
raw = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(message.as_bytes())
raw = raw.decode()
body = {'raw': raw}
return body
def send_message(service, user_id, message):
"""Send an email message.
Args:
service: Authorized Gmail API service instance.
user_id: User's email address. The special value "me"
can be used to indicate the authenticated user.
message: Message to be sent.
Returns:
Sent Message.
"""
try:
message = (service.users().messages().send(userId=user_id, body=message)
.execute())
print('Message Id: %s' % message['id'])
return message
except errors.HttpError as error:
print('An error occurred: %s' % error)
def service_account_login():
SCOPES = [
'https://mail.google.com',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.compose',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly',
]
dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE = dirname + '/service-key.json'
credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE, scopes=SCOPES)
delegated_credentials = credentials.with_subject(
'info@g-suite-domain')
service = build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=delegated_credentials)
return service
if __name__ == '__main__':
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--to', required=True)
parser.add_argument('--subject', required=True)
args = parser.parse_args()
content = sys.stdin.read()
EMAIL_FROM = "[email protected]"
service = service_account_login()
# Call the Gmail API
message = create_message(EMAIL_FROM, args.to, args.subject, content)
sent = send_message(service, 'me', message)
I have tried...
- relevant solutions I could find online but none helped.
- setting both the EMAIL_FROM and with_subject address to the form of "Name <sender-address@domain>" which has no effect.
- changing the 'Send mail as' option in gmail for 'info@g-suite-domain'
- specifying the name for both email accounts in gmail, google admin, and google console.
- creating a new project + service account
- reading the googleapiclient.discovery library for problematic code but could not find anything.
