Automatic Gmail reply ended up replying to the same email over and over.. I'm trying to see where I messed up

Thanks Troy

Does this create an infinite loop? 
 

@Moshiwakeda

We would need to see how your Zaps steps using Gmail are configured in EDIT mode.

Make sure to check the field descriptions for guidance, especially for the Zap trigger step.

If you are unable to see the screenshot I embedded in my reply, you can see it here: https://i.imgur.com/XVID1cY.png

Ah ok, well there isn’t much to see there. The correct email was targeted according to this setting, except for the fact that replying to it didn’t mark the email as read
So it continuously treated the same email as “New”. This was altogether unexpected

 

I haven’t tested it yet, but from what I can find it seems that marking an email (message or thread) as Read is technically a label removal where the ‘UNREAD’ label is removed

It should look something like this in python:

def remove_unread_label(service, thread_id):
  """Removes the "UNREAD" label from a thread.

  Args:
    service: The Gmail service object.
    thread_id: The ID of the thread to modify.
  """

  # Create the request body.
  request_body = {
    "removeLabelIds": ["UNREAD"]
  }

  # Make the API call.
  service.users().threads().modify(userId="me", id=thread_id, body=request_body).execute()

But that requires these authorizations and I don’t know if/how Zapier deals with these:

• https://mail.google.com/
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify

I suppose that this is already taken care of when I connect my google account

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/reference/rest/v1/users.threads/modify
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/reference/rest/v1/users.messages/modify