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Rubén
Asked: 2020-04-14 18:41:48 +0800 CST 2020-04-14 18:41:48 +0800 CST

How can I get the list of sent messages in Gmail?

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GmailApp is a Google Apps Script service through which the mailbox of the user executing the script can be accessed. The GMailApp reference page includes the getDraftMessages() method, but there is no similar method for draft messages. How can I get the messages in the sent folder?

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    Gmail, instead of using folders to organize messages, uses labels, of which there are two main types, system labels and user labels.

    Note: According to Managing Labels , the Drafts ( DRAFTS) and Sent ( SENT) labels are system labels that cannot be assigned by the user.

    In addition to getDraftMessages() , there are other methods to get tagged messages from the system, but as mentioned in the question there is no such method for sent tagged messages. As for the GmailMessage Class , there is the isDraft() method but there is no similar one to ask if a message has the system tag SENT.

    Therefore, the alternative that remains is to use a search, based on Search Operators that you can use with Gmail , with the operator in:sentor label:sent.

    The following example logs the number of threads with the tag SENT.

    function cantidadEnviados () {
   // Encuentra los mensajes ENVIADOS
   var threads = GmailApp.search('in:sent');
   var cantidad = threads.length;
   Logger.log('La cantidad de hilos en Enviados es ' + cantidad);
}

    Note: To get a list of messages instead of a list of threads, you will need to use the advanced Gmail service, more specifically users.messages.list

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