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Connect Gmail to SendGrid

SendGrid is good at sending many emails at once; Gmail is where the replies and your own reports land. Use them together and bulk sends go out through SendGrid while the conversations they start are handled in the inbox you already use.
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Ideas

What you can do with Gmail and SendGrid

Weekly personalised sends and outreach campaigns through SendGrid, with replies and reports in Gmail. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
WeeklyAI

Send each contact a personalised weekly tip through SendGrid

Every week each subscriber gets a short tip written for them through SendGrid, and you get a send report in Gmail.

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Every 15 minutesAI

Sort outreach replies in Gmail into interested and not

Replies to your SendGrid outreach are read as they land in Gmail, labelled interested or not, and the hot ones are flagged in Slack.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Gmail and SendGrid, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Gmail and SendGrid automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Gmail and SendGrid in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Read replies to my SendGrid campaign in Gmail and if someone asks to unsubscribe, add them to my SendGrid suppression list and label the email "unsubscribed".

Each Friday, email me from Gmail a summary of the week's campaign replies, sorted into interested, questions and not interested.

Use cases

Why people connect Gmail and SendGrid

How the two apps work together

  • A check every few minutes reads new Gmail messages that match a label or search, such as replies to a campaign.
  • The script sends outgoing bulk or templated email through SendGrid, with your Gmail address set as the reply-to.
  • Replies land back in Gmail, where the script can label them, draft answers or log them.

  • Founders separating bulk and personal email

    Newsletters and campaigns go through SendGrid so they do not count against Gmail sending limits. Replies still arrive in your Gmail inbox where you work.

  • Sales teams triaging campaign replies

    Replies to a SendGrid campaign are read in Gmail and sorted by AI into interested, not now and unsubscribe. Interested replies get a label and a draft response.

  • Agencies sending client reports

    A weekly report email to each client goes through SendGrid with consistent formatting. Client replies stay in the agency Gmail.

  • Ops teams forwarding alerts to a list

    Important emails received in Gmail can be re-sent through SendGrid to a distribution list. Large lists do not hit Gmail's daily limits.

More apps

Gmail, SendGrid and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Campaign from a sheet with reply tracking

Send an email through SendGrid to every row in my Google Sheet with my Gmail as reply-to, and mark the row "replied" when a reply arrives in Gmail.

Log interested replies to HubSpot

When a reply to my SendGrid campaign arrives in Gmail and AI thinks it is interested, create a HubSpot deal for that contact.

Ping Slack on positive replies

Post to #sales whenever a campaign reply in Gmail is positive, with the sender and the first two lines.

Setup

Connect Gmail and SendGrid once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Gmail

Email

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Gmail API under APIs & Services → Library.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen. On Google Workspace choose Internal. On a personal Gmail account choose External, then under Audience click Publish app so it is In production, not Testing.
  3. Under Data Access, add the scopes you need, such as https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify, or gmail.send if you only want to send.
  4. Under Clients, create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  5. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Gmail and enter the client ID and secret. On a personal account Google shows an unverified-app screen: click Advanced, then go to your app.

SendGrid

Email (transactional / marketing)

  1. In SendGrid, go to Settings, API Keys and choose Create API Key.
  2. Pick Restricted Access and give only what your automations need, such as Mail Send: Full, plus Marketing, Stats or Suppressions access for the matching automations.
  3. Copy the key. SendGrid shows it only once.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for SendGrid.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Gmail and SendGrid

Why not send everything from Gmail?
Gmail has daily sending limits and isn't built for lists. SendGrid handles volume and deliverability, while Gmail stays for one-to-one conversation.
Do replies to SendGrid emails reach Gmail?
Yes, if the reply-to address on the SendGrid email is your Gmail address. Set it in the prompt.
What access does it need to Gmail?
Only what each automation uses: sending for reports, or reading and labelling for reply triage. It never deletes mail.
Can I see what was sent?
Each run emails you a short report with the number sent and any addresses that failed.
Will my emails come from my own domain?
Yes, if you verify your domain or sender in SendGrid. You can use the same address you use in Gmail.
Can one automation send from both Gmail and SendGrid?
Yes. A script can send one-to-one replies from Gmail and bulk messages from SendGrid, using each connection as needed.
Does it read my whole inbox?
It needs Gmail read access, but the script only looks at messages matching the search or label you give it.

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