How to create multiple copies of a draft letter to Gmail
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
In this article you will learn how to send the same letter to multiple recipients in a way that for each of them, it seemed personal. For this we need the mail service Gmail and Google Apps Script little magic.
You need to send the same email message to multiple people simultaneously, but separately. Subject, content writing, and investments remain unchanged, and the only thing that is different in each message - a recipient's email address. This can be useful if you, for example, send your resume to several companies. Here's how to do it without having to copy-paste the theme and text for each message.
When you are done with the draft, and to press the "Submit" button, the message will be automatically deleted from the folder "Drafts" and moved to the folder "Sent" in Gmail. Unlike Microsoft Outlook, to Gmail mail service can not create multiple copies of existing e-mail messages.
There are two simple ways to create a duplicate of the draft letter in Gmail. You can either use the extension
Mail MergeOr if you are looking for an easier way to use the new titled Duplicate Gmail web application written using Google Apps Script.Here's what you need to do.
- Open your Gmail inbox, create a new message and save it as a draft.
- Go to this page and let the app access to your Gmail account. This is necessary so that the application could read drafts in Gmail and create copies of them.
To quickly clone any draft, select it from the drop-down list and enter the desired number of copies. After that, you remain just click on the Clone Drafts button and check the result. If you need to create additional copies, then reload the page and repeat your action.
This tool works in Gmail on the desktop, and mobile phones, so you can use it wherever you need it.