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Outbound: keep stakeholders informed
Rills watches your Slack activity and stages Gmail actions for your review before they run. Every draft and label change waits for a tap, so nothing leaves your inbox without your sign-off.
Going the other way? Gmail to Slack
The slack gmail integration on Rills lets you route Slack activity directly into Gmail actions: drafting replies, sending notifications, and organizing labels. It is built for solopreneurs and small teams who need email to stay in sync with their Slack conversations without adding manual work to their day.
When a trigger fires, Rills proposes the Gmail action and waits for you to approve it from your phone before anything happens. You swipe to approve or reject, and Rills learns your preferences over time. Approvals and logic are always free; you only pay when a real action runs.
With slack to gmail automation, you can turn a Slack DM into a Gmail draft for a considered reply, fire off a notification email when a key channel message appears, or tag related emails when a reaction is added to a thread. You can also connect slack to gmail contact search so the sender's details are ready the moment a DM arrives. Each action only runs after you say yes.
When a direct message arrives in Slack, a Gmail draft is created with the conversation context already filled in. You review and send on your own schedule, so nothing goes out half-formed.
Build this workflowWhen a user receives a direct message in Slack, automatically create a Gmail draft to preserve the conversation or prepare a response without sending immediately.
When a message is posted in a monitored Slack channel, automatically send a notification email to team members or stakeholders who need visibility on that channel activity.
When a reaction is added to a Slack message, automatically tag or label related emails in Gmail to categorize and organize conversations that correspond to that message thread.
When a direct message arrives in Slack, automatically search Gmail contacts to ensure the sender's email address and related information is available for quick reference.
Fires when a message is posted in a Slack channel, including public, private, and multi-party conversations—but excludes direct messages. This is ideal for monitoring all team channel activity.
Fires when a user receives a direct message in Slack. Catches messages across all DM conversations with a single trigger.
Fires when someone adds an emoji reaction to a message in Slack. You can optionally filter by specific channels or emoji types.
Fires when someone posts a new message to any Slack channel. Use this to capture and act on channel conversations.
Fires when a new Slack channel is created in your workspace. Use this to automatically set up new channels or log channel creation events.
Fires when a user adds an emoji reaction to any Slack message. Useful for tracking engagement or sentiment through reactions.
Fires when a bot posts a new message to a Slack channel. Use this to respond to or process automated messages separately from user messages.
Fires when someone removes an emoji reaction from a message in Slack. Track when reactions are withdrawn from messages.
Send a reply within an existing Gmail conversation thread to continue an ongoing discussion with clients or contacts. This keeps related messages organized together rather than starting a new email chain.
Send emails directly from your Gmail account with support for recipients, attachments, and HTML formatting. This is ideal for automating customer communications, notifications, and follow-ups without leaving your workflow.
Permanently remove multiple Gmail messages at once, completely deleting them without sending to Trash. Use this when you need to enforce email retention policies or maintain a clean inbox at scale.
Organize your Gmail inbox by creating custom labels to categorize and manage emails effectively. This operation generates a unique label that can be applied to messages and threads for better email organization.
Organize and categorize your emails by applying Gmail labels to specific messages, helping you keep your inbox structured and easy to search. This is useful for sorting incoming mail into projects, clients, or priority levels.
Find contacts in your Gmail address book by searching across names, emails, phone numbers, and organizations. This helps you quickly locate specific people you've saved without manually browsing your entire contact list.
Creates a Gmail email draft that you can review and edit before sending, allowing you to compose messages with recipients, subject, body content, and attachments. This gives you time to refine your message and send it on your schedule.
Retrieve a list of emails from your Gmail inbox with support for filtering and pagination to find specific messages or manage large volumes of email data efficiently.
When a Slack event fires, the agent drafts the Gmail action and pauses.
A push notification lands on your phone. Swipe to approve or reject in seconds.
Confidence climbs each time you approve. Repeated approvals graduate to auto-execute.
Trigger: New event in Slack
Action: Run in Gmail
Pause until you approve.
Create a Rills account at rills.app. No credit card is needed. Your 14-day trial gives you full access to all integrations and approval features.
In the integrations panel, authorize Rills to read your Slack events. Choose the workspace and grant only the permissions the trigger needs, such as reading direct messages or channel activity.
Authorize your Gmail account in the same panel. Rills will be able to create drafts, send emails, and update labels only after you approve each action.
Choose SLACK_DIRECT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED as your trigger and Create email draft as your action. This is the fastest pairing to test: send yourself a Slack DM and watch the draft appear for approval.
When the trigger fires, Rills sends you an approval request. Swipe to approve on your phone and the Gmail draft is created instantly. Reject it and nothing happens. You are in control from the first run.
Start a free Rills trial, then authorize both your Slack workspace and your Gmail account in the integrations panel. From there, pick a Slack trigger and a Gmail action from the curated pairings. Your first workflow can be live in under five minutes, no code required.
Rills offers a free 14-day trial with no credit card required. Approvals and automation logic are always free. You only pay for real actions that run, like sending an email or creating a draft, after you have approved them.
Yes. The SLACK_DIRECT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED trigger can stage a Gmail draft for your approval every time a direct message arrives. The draft is pre-filled with context from the Slack conversation, so you just review, edit if needed, and send when you are ready.
By default, every Gmail action waits for your approval before it runs. Rills learns your patterns over time, and you can adjust the confidence threshold to allow trusted, repetitive actions to run without a manual tap once you are comfortable with the workflow.
The curated pairings support direct messages, channel messages, and message reactions as Slack triggers. Each one maps to a Gmail action: creating drafts, sending emails, modifying labels, or searching contacts. You can activate one pairing or run several in parallel.
Rills only reads the Slack event data needed to stage the Gmail action you configured. Draft content and email details are not stored beyond what is required to present the approval to you. You approve before anything touches your Gmail account.
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Free to try. Approvals are always free. You only pay when your workflows take real actions.