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This section walks through setting up the Gmail connector using a Service Account. More info on Service Accounts can be found here. A Google Workspace is required. If you’d rather use an individuals account + OAuth to access Gmail, checkout the section here.

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Authorization

  1. Create a Google Cloud Project
  2. Enable the Gmail API and the Admin SDK API
    • On the left panel, open APIs & services
    • Go to Enabled APIs and services
    • On the top click +ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES
    • Search for Gmail API and click ENABLE
    • Alternatively visit this link, select your project and enable the Gmail API
    • Search for Admin SDK API and click ENABLE
    • Alternatively visit this link, select your project and enable the Admin SDK API
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  1. Create a Service Account
    • Go to the Service Account management page in Google Cloud.
    • Click Create Service Account button and fill out the fields in step 1. You can ignore steps 2 and 3.
    • Go to the Keys section, and click Add Key. Download this key, you will need to upload to to RECAP later.
    Note for Google Organizations created after April 2024:
    • to give the service account the proper permissions you will have to navigate to this link
    • Then select Manage, select Override parent's policy and then select Not enforced under Rules.
    • Finally, select SET POLICY
  2. Give this Service Account read-only access to Gmail
    • Copy the Unique ID of the Service Account
    • Go to the Domain-wide Delegation page in the Google Admin Console.
    • Click Add new, fill in the client ID with the Unique ID of the Service account
    • Copy this comma separated list of scopes and pasted it into field OAuth scopes: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.group.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly