Creates a custom “from” send-as alias
watermint toolbox stores credentials into the file system. That is located at below path:
| OS | Path |
|---|---|
| Windows | %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\secrets (e.g. C:\Users\bob.toolbox\secrets) |
| macOS | $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /Users/bob/.toolbox/secrets) |
| Linux | $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /home/bob/.toolbox/secrets) |
Please do not share those files to anyone including Dropbox support. You can delete those files after use if you want to remove it. If you want to make sure removal of credentials, revoke application access from setting or the admin console.
Please see below help article for more detail:
| Description |
|---|
| Gmail: Manage your sensitive mail settings, including who can manage your mail |
For the first run, tbx will ask you an authentication with your Google account.
Press the Enter key to launch the browser. The service then performs the authorization and tbx receives the results. You can close the browser window when you see the authentication success message.
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Opening the authorization URL:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A7800%2Fconnect%2Fauth&response_type=code&state=xxxxxxxx
Please download the pre-compiled binary from Latest Release. If you are using Windows, please download the zip file like tbx-xx.x.xxx-win.zip. Then, extract the archive and place tbx.exe on the Desktop folder.
The watermint toolbox can run from any path in the system if allowed by the system. But the instruction samples are using the Desktop folder. Please replace the path if you placed the binary other than the Desktop folder.
This document uses the Desktop folder for command example.
Windows:
cd $HOME\Desktop
.\tbx.exe google mail sendas add -email EMAIL
macOS, Linux:
$HOME/Desktop/tbx google mail sendas add -email EMAIL
Note for macOS Catalina 10.15 or above: macOS verifies Developer identity. Currently, tbx is not ready for it. Please select “Cancel” on the first dialogue. Then please proceed “System Preference”, then open “Security & Privacy”, select “General” tab.
You may find the message like:
“tbx” was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer.
And you may find the button “Allow Anyway”. Please hit the button with your risk. At second run, please hit button “Open” on the dialogue.
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
-display-name |
A name that appears in the “From:” header for mail sent using this alias. | |
-email |
The send-as alias email address | |
-peer |
Account alias | default |
-reply-to |
An optional email address that is included in a “Reply-To:” header for mail sent using this alias. | |
-skip-verify |
Skip verify | false |
-user-id |
The user’s email address. The special value me can be used to indicate the authenticated user. | me |
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
-auth-database |
Custom path to auth database (default: $HOME/.toolbox/secrets/secrets.db) | |
-auto-open |
Auto open URL or artifact folder | false |
-bandwidth-kb |
Bandwidth limit in K bytes per sec for upload/download content. 0 for unlimited | 0 |
-budget-memory |
Memory budget (limits some feature to reduce memory footprint) | normal |
-budget-storage |
Storage budget (limits logs or some feature to reduce storage usage) | normal |
-concurrency |
Maximum concurrency for running operation | Number of processors |
-debug |
Enable debug mode | false |
-experiment |
Enable experimental feature(s). | |
-extra |
Extra parameter file path | |
-lang |
Display language | auto |
-output |
Output format (none/text/markdown/json) | text |
-proxy |
HTTP/HTTPS proxy (hostname:port). Please specify DIRECT if you want skip setting proxy. |
|
-quiet |
Suppress non-error messages, and make output readable by a machine (JSON format) | false |
-retain-job-data |
Job data retain policy | default |
-secure |
Do not store tokens into a file | false |
-skip-logging |
Skip logging in the local storage | false |
-verbose |
Show current operations for more detail. | false |
-workspace |
Workspace path |
Report file path will be displayed last line of the command line output. If you missed command line output, please see path below. [job-id] will be the date/time of the run. Please see the latest job-id.
| OS | Path pattern | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\jobs\[job-id]\reports |
C:\Users\bob.toolbox\jobs\20190909-115959.597\reports |
| macOS | $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports |
/Users/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports |
| Linux | $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports |
/home/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports |
Settings associated with a send-as alias, which can be either the primary login address associated with the account or a custom “from” address.
The command will generate a report in three different formats. send_as.csv, send_as.json, and send_as.xlsx.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| send_as_email | The send-as alias email address |
| display_name | A name that appears in the “From:” header for mail sent using this alias. |
| reply_to_address | An optional email address that is included in a “Reply-To:” header for mail sent using this alias. |
| signature | An optional HTML signature that is included in messages composed with this alias in the Gmail web UI. |
| is_primary | Whether this address is the primary address used to login to the account. |
| is_default | Whether this address is selected as the default “From:” address in situations such as composing a new message or sending a vacation auto-reply. |
| treat_as_alias | Whether Gmail should treat this address as an alias for the user’s primary email address. |
| verification_status | Indicates whether this address has been verified for use as a send-as alias |
If you run with -budget-memory low option, the command will generate only JSON format report.
In case of a report become large, a report in .xlsx format will be split into several chunks like follows; send_as_0000.xlsx, send_as_0001.xlsx, send_as_0002.xlsx, …
The executable automatically detects your proxy configuration from the environment. However, if you got an error or you want to specify explicitly, please add -proxy option, like -proxy hostname:port. Currently, the executable doesn’t support proxies which require authentication.