how to get the email adress of the sender

Question

I need to generate a report on the list of messages and the sender of a letter, I can extract the theme of letters, but not understanding how to get the sender's address for each letter, the report turned out to be:

topic: hello From: frank@gmail.com

topic: your basket from: jerry@facebook.com

  function myFunction() {
      var emailAddress = Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();
      var threads = GmailApp.getInboxThreads();


      var output = ContentService.createTextOutput();
      for (var i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
        output.append(threads[i].getFirstMessageSubject()+" from:"+'\n');
      }


      GmailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress,"Mail Report", output.getContent()

        );
    }

UPDATE

Thank you for your answers, the solution was simple

   function myFunction() {
      var emailAddress = "example@email.com" ;
      var threads = GmailApp.getInboxThreads();

      var messages = threads[0].getMessages();
      var senderEmail = messages[0].getFrom();


      var output = ContentService.createTextOutput();
      for (var i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
        messages = threads[i].getMessages()
        senderEmail = messages[0].getFrom();
        output.append(i + ".  " + threads[i].getFirstMessageSubject()+"   from:"+ senderEmail + '\n');
      }


      GmailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress,"Mail Report", output.getContent()

        );
    }

Example result:

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The code you've provided does not produce the output you've provided. That being said, I *think* patto_chennai has answered your question, although I'm not sure any of us are sure what the question is. — mzimmerman, Jul 02 '12 at 16:28

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '12 at 16:13

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If I understand what you are looking to do, then I believe you could get the messages from the thread, and then the sender from the message

var threads = GmailApp.getInboxThreads();
var messages = threads[0].getMessages();
var senderEmail = messages[0].getFrom();

answered Jul 02 '12 at 16:13

patto_chennai

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Thank you for your reply, I thought about it and realized how to use this method in a script – Tremere Jul 02 '12 at 16:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '14 at 15:39

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var label = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName('inbox');
var threads = label.getThreads();


for(i in threads)
{

  threads[i].getMessages()[0].getFrom()

}

answered Jan 25 '14 at 15:39

totti

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '18 at 12:24

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You need to add "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email" in oauthScopes.(appscript.json file)

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answered Jan 10 '18 at 12:24

Sanjib Debnath

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score -1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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For reasons of security, you cannot get the email using Session.getActiveUser().getEmail() if you are on a consumer Google account. It works only when the script is owned by a Google Apps user and the visitor belongs to the same domain.

However, you can try what is mentioned here

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

Community

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answered Jul 02 '12 at 16:12

Srik

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Thanks, I just had to read the addresses of senders in the Inbox of my mail :) – Tremere Jul 02 '12 at 16:54

how to get the email adress of the sender

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