Hi @Moshiwakeda 

You likely created an infinite loop.

For us to have full context, post screenshots with how your Zap steps are outlined and configured in EDIT mode.

Thanks Troy

Does this create an infinite loop? 
 

There’s just too many variables to consider that could have caused this, I really don’t know where to even start
That it doesn’t mark the email as Read is the most logical explanation in my mind

@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.

Yes, my screenshot is from edit mode
I’m trying to figure out why it kept sending emails even though no new email was received

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

@Moshiwakeda 

The provided screenshots do not show us have your Zap trigger step is configured in the “Trigger” tab section.

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

@Moshiwakeda 

Make sure to check the field description for guidance.

You’ll need to specify which folder to watch.