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title: "Gmail integration"
description: "What a workflow reads and prepares in Gmail, its scope of access and why sending remains a human task."
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published_at: "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z"
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# Gmail integration

## Read one mailbox, prepare replies, never send

The mailbox is where work arrives for most organizations. Gen8 has its own Gmail integration, allowing a workflow to read and organize messages and prepare draft replies. It does not send — that is a principle, not a setting waiting to be enabled.

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September 13, 2026 · Email

**Route:** native  
**Components:** Gmail

## What the integration can do

Within your designated mailbox, label or folder:

- **Search** messages by sender, subject, period or content
- **Read** a message and its conversation
- **Label** — add or remove labels to organize messages or pass them to the next step
- **Manage** messages, for example archive or mark them according to your agreements
- **Prepare a draft** with a proposed reply in the mailbox where you can see it

**Deleting** messages is outside our setup: an incorrectly discarded email is exactly the kind of mistake nobody reverses.

## What you can *automate* with this

A few examples of work you can hand over through this integration. We work out what fits your organisation together during scoping.

### Sort incoming email

Messages under the designated label receive a label routing them to the right step or colleague.

### A reply ready in your mailbox

The proposed reply is a Gmail draft. You review and send it yourself.

### The whole conversation included

Before answering, the workflow finds earlier messages by sender, subject or period and reads the entire conversation.

## Does this work look familiar? Or does your process run on another system?

Tell us which work you want to hand over. We help you think through the integration and route, even if your system is not listed here yet.

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## What access is needed

An administrator connects and defines scope: which mailbox, label or folder. This is the most important setup choice, because email almost always contains more than the workflow concerns — sensitive messages, personnel matters, third-party quotes.

The workflow gets only permissions needed by selected actions. Reading alone needs no modification permissions. Preparing drafts needs permission for that, not for sending. Credentials are stored encrypted. Gen8 processes in the EU; Google processes email in your Workspace environment.

## Where approval is required

Reading and labeling within agreed scope happen without intervention; that makes triage useful. Anything outbound becomes a draft: the reply waits in the mailbox and the person sending it reads it first.

We retain that distinction even when draft quality improves over time. A wrongly sent email cannot be recalled and affects someone outside your organization — a different kind of error from an incorrect CRM field. Every step is logged, including drafts that were not sent.

## What we can demonstrate

Gmail has its own Gen8 integration with separate tools for searching, retrieving messages, managing labels and mailboxes, and creating drafts. Hence the native route. Outlook mail likewise has its own integration: see [Microsoft 365](<https://gen8.app/en/integraties/microsoft-365/>). For the broader Google environment, see [Google Workspace](<https://gen8.app/en/integraties/google-workspace/>); for what a workflow does with it, see [inbox triage](<https://gen8.app/en/mogelijkheden/inbox-triage/>) and [email to CRM](<https://gen8.app/en/integraties/email-naar-crm/>).

gen8 · gmaildone

Assess a message under the designated label

Plan01Message within the designated label classified: customer question

Action02Surrounding conversation read for context

Action03Label added and message routed to the next step

Action04Draft reply prepared in the mailbox

Reflect05Sending is not a workflow step: the draft stays in place

Draft ready · a person reads and sends it

## Frequently asked questions

Does the workflow read all email?

Only what is within the designated mailbox, label or folder. We define that scope during setup.

Can it send if we want it to?

Technically possible, but not how we configure it. If you want it, someone responsible for the mailbox must make an explicit decision.

What happens with attachments?

They are not automatically opened and interpreted. Document processing is a separate step you deliberately configure.

Does this work with Outlook too?

Yes, with its own integration and the same structure. See Microsoft 365.

## Which systems do you use?

Tell us which process you want to connect. We explain which route fits, which permissions are needed and where people keep making decisions.

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