IFTTT (If This Then That) is a very interesting service which can help you link or interconnect many other services, apps or devices using triggers and actions. With IFTTT, what you can do is seems unlimited! It can be integrated with popular services like; Google, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Zapier and just to name a few. Applets are specific things that can happen when you connect services — things your apps can't do on their own. This is the case with the Gmail service. One could easily create an Applet which will notify he/she when a new email is received.
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Applets are specific things that can happen when you connect services — things your apps can't do on their own. This is the case with the Gmail service. One could easily create an Applet which will notify he/she when a new email is received.
IFTT and Gmail possible connections
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With IFTTT Gmail users could easily do one or two things without having to go extra miles creating any special App or coding anything. Everything was simply easy to set up and use.
I for one pretty depended on this to get notifications of every new mail received. Linking Gmail with Telegram via the IFTTT telegram bot was very interesting and helpful for I didn’t have to log in to the web browser always in order to know if I had a new mail from a Customer or friends.
As far as IFTTT integration with Gmail is concerned, you could easily use it to;
- Get your Emails when a new email is received: This could be done by simply connecting yours.
- Gmail account with IFTTT using their Telegram bot for telegram users.
- Get an email when a new Gmail Applet is published on IFTTT.
- Tell Alexa to trigger an emergency email blast
- Trigger an emergency email blast with Google assistant.
- Let someone know you are heading home.
- Retrieve new SMS by mail.
- Send email RSS
- Tell Alexa to email your shopping list.
- Send files from Dropbox to Kindle
- Above is just a handful of what one could achieve with the IFTTT and Gmail integration. There are bountiful and users can also use IFTTT with Gmail in many different ways.
What is happening then?
Almost all Gmail integrations with IFTTT will stop working by the end of this month. The reason behind this is owing to the fact that Google is altering its Gmail API in order to offer better security.
Based on information gathered, it seems the only Gmail integration that will remain will be that which allows you to send yourself an email or to a friend.
IFTTT’s Gmail functionality previously worked by relying on the email service’s APIs. However, these came under scrutiny last year, after reports that they were allowing third-parties read users emails. Google announced in the month of October last year that it was tightening up Gmail’s policies concerning third-party services, and that it would be reviewing all third-party apps to ensure they were in compliance with the new rules. Google said that existing services would otherwise have their access revoked after March 31st 2019.
I know some may be wondering if IFTTT will try to comply with the new Google Gmail policies concerning Third-party Apps or services, but in an article on their blog, IFTTT said they tried by where unable to do so. Here is a paragraph from the blog post from IFTTT;
“After some communication with Google's team, we were able to keep the two remaining actions without introducing major infrastructure changes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to keep the triggers
and the Create a draft action as we'd hoped.”
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