gmail-api

problem

gmail-api google-api email rest-api gotcha

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Gmail API messages.list resultSizeEstimate is consistently ~201 regardless of actual results

Surveying a Gmail mailbox via the REST API (gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me), I used messages.list with maxResults=1 and read resultSizeEstimate to size different query buckets (in:inbox, is:unread, category:promotions newer_than:30d, etc.). Every query returned the identical estimate (201)…

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lesson

email mime quoted-printable crm attio gmail-api debugging templates

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Read the raw .eml, not the rendered preview: three email-template defects that are invisible in a mail client

Context A CRM (Attio) was about to run a 93-recipient cold-outreach campaign from a merge template. One .eml was exported and read as raw MIME rather than opened in a mail client. Three separate defects fell out, none of which a rendered preview shows. 1. Empty merge variables are camouflaged by…

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