Send mail/Drafts

[lcolladotor]

Hi,

Unless I missed it, I couldn't find a way in gmailr to create new emails. From https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/drafts/create it seems to me that the Google API does support creating new drafts. I don't know how hard it would be, but if something like a create_draft() function was added, then together with send_draft() we could send emails from gmailr. That would then open up to the use case that @kbroman talked about in his blog.

@kwbroman you should also check out https://t.co/11t6IA4bfQ

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Cheers,
Leo

[jimhester]

You can actually send email directly using https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/messages/send API but you need to encode the body of the message as a RFC 2822 encoded string. I have not found an existing package to do this, but possibly one may exist. I believe this is also the API for the drafts as well, from looking at it just now.

This was a known limitation when I released the package, I should put a mention of it somewhere as it is (obviously) an expected feature to be able to send email :)

[jimhester]

Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME and the sendmailR package this shouldn't be as hard as I originally thought.

[jimhester]

We can now send mime text and html messages with attachments. I just need to clean up the documentation and this can be completely closed.

[jimhester]

This is for the vast majority of cases now working see https://github.com/jimhester/gmailr/blob/master/vignettes/sending_messages.Rmd for example usage.

[lcolladotor]

Awesome, great work!

[lcolladotor]

@ncarchedi This should make gmailr usable for your use case, no?

[lcolladotor]

@jimhester I am just a bit curious as to why you don't bump the version number of gmailr after adding/fixing new functionality? There was a long discussion about this in the Bioconductor-devel mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-September/006193.html and at some point several pointed out that "version numbers are cheap".

[jimhester]

I will increment the version number when I send a new release to CRAN, no
point in doing it before that, you can just version by the commit hash if
you are installing from github.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Leonardo Collado-Torres <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

@jimhester https://github.com/jimhester I am just a bit curious as to
why you don't bump the version number of gmailr after adding/fixing new
functionality? There was a long discussion about this in the
Bioconductor-devel mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-September/006193.html and
at some point several pointed out that "version numbers are cheap".

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[lcolladotor]

I understand that. But well, it makes it hard to track what version a user has installed from the sessionInfo() output.

[jimhester]

not if they use devtools::session_info() 😃

[lcolladotor]

Haha, nice!