Gmail

Gmail is the most popular web-based e-mail service and is provided by Google. With it, occasionally composing and sending e-mail messages manually to one or a few people is not a problem. But what if you want to send an e-mail at a predefined time when you are not awake or to multiple recipients? Consider the following scenarios:

  • You want to send a surprise birthday greeting to your friend at a fixed time; neither earlier nor later
  • You need to send customized e-mails to hundreds of people at a time
  • You need to send e-mails periodically

For all these scenarios, GAS has the answers:

  • Using GAS, you can build a mail merger application to send e-mails with customized greetings or messages to n number of people.
  • You can extract information buried in ...

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