Email via Google Apps Script from another email address

Question

I'm familiar with how to send emails via Google Apps Script (http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/articles/sending_emails.html). It's super cool. But is there a way I can email from Apps Script from another email address that I have access to? It seems like I can specify a reply to address, but the user still sees the email as from my primary user account, I believe.

Example: My email is [email protected], but I'd like to send the email from [email protected] from the Apps Script Javascript.

Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

The only way to achieve that is by logging with the account of desired email, in your case "[email protected]" and run the script with it. If you're running the script automatically via a trigger, just set the trigger with this account. If you do not have an account for it, you'd have to create one.

Adjusting the from field is not possible. There's an open issue about this on Apps Script tracker: Issue 172: Ability to send email from users different accounts ("from:" field in gmail)

--update: as one can see by following the link above, this is now possible if the desired address is an alias in your gmail.

Answer 2

Try this

var alias=GmailApp.getAliases();//This gets array of Aliases set up in gmail.
GmailApp.sendEmail(email , "Subj.. ", "body....", {from: alias[0]}); //Uses first alias

Answer 3

My gadget/script [1] does precisely that, you can reply to many emails at once from within your GMail account.

Basically I just used the Publish / Deploy as web app command (from the script editor) and in there set the options

Execute the app as: User accessing the web app

Who has access to the app: Anyone

Users then will be asked to authorise the script the first time they access it and they will run it from their own Google account, accessing their own Gmail.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/replytomany/