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My daily email automation can draft but is never allowed to send

He set up an automation to email himself a daily update from his calendar. Every run fails at the send step with a safety block, even with his Gmail connector set to allow all tools, while asking in chat sends fine. He rebuilt it several ways and every version stops at the same point.

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How it works

  1. Build an automation that reads his calendar and emails him a daily update
  2. Run it and hit a safety block on the send step
  3. Reconnect Gmail, change permissions, rebuild in a new chat, split drafting and sending
  4. Every version fails at the same send step

Why it’s worth knowing

The same account can send the email by hand in chat, but the scheduled version is blocked every single time.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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