I have a setup where we input leads into Airtable, do a bunch of stuff and then send them emails in Gmail. I can’t figure out how to separate the leads over time. If we batch input like 100 leads into Airtable, I don’t want them all to send at once.
Any adivce?
Hello @Cory_Turnbull and welcome to the Make Community!
You’ve not provided any example of your scenario or details as to how much of a delay you want nor the max size of the batch of emails you want to send so I’ll just respond generically and ask some more clarifying questions…
Are you adding leads to Airtable individually or in batches?
Either way, maybe you can add a Sleep module before Gmail? That will ensure you hold a number of seconds or minutes before sending each email.
Again, don’t know how your scenario is structured so this may not make sense for your use case.
We add batch leads to Airtable. So, I was not sure if I added 100 leads in Airtable at once, what was the best way to get them to send but not all at once.
After adding the leads to Airtable, Airtable should return multiple bundles, each representing a new record/lead. That acts as an iterator so anything that comes after it (like GMail) will run once for each record/lead. To slow that down, add a Sleep module between Airtable add records and Gmail. That will send one email every X seconds.
OK great thank you. Do you happen to know a safe # of emails that can be sent from Gmail each day?
I do not, but you should be able to look it up. Google generally puts limits of number of requests per second and max per day.
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