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The Chrome plugins and GEoogle plugins don’t pass my company;s security measures. They want too much access, so these are a no-go (for what I tested).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Curiously enough he said his research also said Apps Scripts were a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a few Google Apps Scripts for doing data mining — this sounded fun.\u00a0 I opened up VS Code and using the Gemini code assists plugin generated out a solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Also — Apps Script comes with everyone who has a Gmail. As a company, we are OK’d for Google measures on security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s the de-id solution I am running now. I am putting it in here in it’s raw form. I’ve noticed that the vibe coding results donm’t do very good cleanup\/review without a few iterations — interesting, and means a lot of non-AI code review is necessary. Note for the two methods — one to do text emails, the other to do html emails, the comments are slightly diff. I just globalized some of the shared parameters to make it a little easier. Feel free to clean this up and curse my name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Log into Google Apps Script<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Add your code into the Apps Script editor. Usually the platform wants to call it Code.js.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can pick wich method you which to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You do NOT need to Deploy the code for any of this, so ignore that. (I aske the AI about it, said no need).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Test your code with RUN. Usually I use my own email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you can create a GMail group for the target. It’s pretty easy, just use Google Groups<\/a>. It will allow you to create an email group. Add members and you’ll havee something with a special email like your-team@yourcompany.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did try to use a contact grouping but those don’t have a recognizable email address, so more code would be needed in your script to mine that out. I found the use of groups simpler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is pretty cool — Apps Script has trigger functionality that can make this recurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you set this up you have your recurring email to your group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Am sure there are people with better solutions, but this is my recent journey trying to find a solution to do recurring emails to multiple accounts in GMail. Silly as this may sound, there doesn’t seem to be a way to send out automated recurring emails to multiple accounts in GMail without third-party intervention. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-6.png\")
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const recipients = \"team@yourcompany.com\";\n\nconst subject = \"Weekly Team Reminder\";\n\/**\n * Sends a recurring email to a predefined list of recipients.\n *\/\nfunction sendRecurringEmail() {\n \/\/ --- Configuration ---\n \/\/ --- Text Body ---\n \/\/ Set the email body. You can use simple text.\n const body = \"Team,\\n\\nPlease remember to do your task for this week.\\n\\nThank you.\\n\\nSpartacus\";\n\n \/\/ --- Sending the Email ---\n try {\n MailApp.sendEmail(recipients, subject, body);\n Logger.log(\"Email sent successfully to: \" + recipients);\n } catch (e) {\n Logger.log(\"Error sending email: \" + e.toString());\n }\n}\n\n\/**\n * Sends a recurring email with an HTML body to a predefined list of recipients.\n *\/\nfunction sendRecurringHtmlEmail() {\n \/\/ --- Configuration ---\n \/\/ --- HTML Body ---\n \/\/ Create an HTML template for the email body for richer formatting.\n const htmlBody = `\n <html>\n <body>\n <h2>Weekly Reminder<\/h2>\n <br>\n <p>Team,<\/p>\n <br>\n <p>Please remember to do your task for this week.<\/p>\n <br>\n <p>Thank you.<\/p>\n <br>\n <p>Hannibal<\/p>\n <\/body>\n <\/html>\n `;\n\n \/\/ --- Sending the Email ---\n try {\n MailApp.sendEmail({\n to: recipients,\n subject: subject,\n htmlBody: htmlBody \/\/ Use the 'htmlBody' option for HTML content\n });\n Logger.log(\"HTML email sent successfully to: \" + recipients);\n } catch (e) {\n Logger.log(\"Error sending HTML email: \" + e.toString());\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nMaking the code work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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