--- title: "Connect ActiveCampaign and Gmail - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact unsubscribed from list\" fires in ActiveCampaign, your agent runs \"Create Email Draft\" in Gmail." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-gmail" --- # Connect ActiveCampaign and Gmail When **Contact unsubscribed from list** fires in [ActiveCampaign](https://apiant.ai/connections/activecampaign), your agent runs **Create Email Draft** in [Gmail](https://apiant.ai/connections/gmail), or **Email Sent** in Gmail to **Add or update contact by email** in ActiveCampaign. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. ActiveCampaign **19** triggers ActiveCampaign **84** actions Gmail **2** triggers Gmail **41** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want ActiveCampaign and Gmail to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ActiveCampaign holds your contacts, tags and deals; Gmail is where the actual conversations happen. Connecting them means a new deal or a new tag can produce a Gmail message or draft, and mail arriving or leaving your inbox can create the contact, note or update in ActiveCampaign that would otherwise be typed in later. Example flows ## What ActiveCampaign and Gmail can do together ### From ActiveCampaign to Gmail - When **Contact unsubscribed from list** in ActiveCampaign then **Create Email Draft** in Gmail - When **New deal** in ActiveCampaign then **Send Email** in Gmail ### From Gmail to ActiveCampaign - When **Email Sent** in Gmail then **Add or update contact by email** in ActiveCampaign - When **New Gmail Message** in Gmail then **Add note to contact** in ActiveCampaign Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with ActiveCampaign and Gmail ## Triggers and actions 21 triggers · 125 actions - Trigger **Contact unsubscribed from list** Fires instantly when a contact unsubscribes from a list. Self-registers an ActiveCampaign webhook for the 'unsubscribe' event. - Trigger **Deal task completed** Fires instantly when a deal task is completed. - Trigger **Email opened** Fires instantly when a contact opens an email. Self-registering ActiveCampaign webhook on the 'open' event. - Trigger **Link clicked in email** Fires instantly when a contact clicks a link in an email. Self-registers an ActiveCampaign webhook for the click event. - Trigger **New contact** Polling trigger. Fires when a new contact is created, newest first. - Trigger **New contact added to list** Triggers when a new contact is added to a list. - Trigger **New deal** Polling trigger. Fires when a new deal is created, newest first. - Trigger **New deal task** Fires instantly when a new deal task is created. - Trigger **New list** Polling trigger. Fires when a new list is created, newest first. - Trigger **New note** Triggered when a new note is created. - Trigger **New or updated contact** Polling trigger. Fires when a contact is created or updated, by most-recent update. - Trigger **New or updated deal** Triggers on a new or updated deal. - Trigger **New or updated deal (instant)** Triggers when a new deal is created or an existing deal is updated. - Trigger **New tag** Polling trigger. Fires when a new tag is created, newest first. - Trigger **New task** Triggered when a new task is created. - Trigger **Tag added to contact** Triggers when a tag is added to a contact. - Trigger **Tag removed from contact** Fires instantly when a tag is removed from a contact. - Trigger **Two-way sync new or updated contacts** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated contacts, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping. Can only be used with enhanced two-way sync actions that support on-the-fly mapping. - Trigger **Two-way sync new or updated deals** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated deals, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping. Can only be used with enhanced two-way sync actions that support on-the-fly mapping. - Action **Add account** Adds a new account (organization). - Action **Add contact** Adds a new contact. - Action **Add contact to automation** Adds a contact to an automation by contact ID and automation ID. - Action **Add contact to list** Subscribes a contact to a list (status 1) or unsubscribes (status 2) via contactLists. - Action **Add contact via mapped list** Adds (upserts) a contact with mapped fields and the target list id. Ports the dev v1 subscriber_add op to the AC v3 contact/sync endpoint. - Action **Add custom contact object record** Adds a record for the specified contact custom object to the specified contact. - Action **Add deal** Adds a new deal. - Action **Add deal via mappings** Adds a new deal, accepting pipeline and stage by name (mapped) plus standard deal fields. - Action **Add list** Creates a new list. - Action **Add note to contact** Adds a note to a contact. - Action **Add or update contact by email** Adds a new contact, or updates the existing contact if the email already exists (sync endpoint). - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag. - Action **Add tag to contact** Adds an existing tag to a contact by tag ID and contact ID. - Action **Add task** Adds a new task in ActiveCampaign - Action **Bulk import contacts** Import many contacts in one call with tags/list membership. - Action **Clear contact custom field value** Clears (empties) the value of the specified custom field for the specified contact. - Action **Create abandoned cart** Creates an abandoned cart record via the Deep Data e-commerce integration (ecomOrders with abandonedDate). - Action **Create account association** Creates an account association with a contact ID. - Action **Create a deal note** Add a note to a deal. - Action **Create a deal stage** Creates a new deal stage in the specified pipeline. - Action **Create a deal stage by mapped pipeline** Creates a new deal stage in the mapped pipeline. - Action **Create an ecommerce customer** Create a Deep Data ecommerce customer linking a contact to a store. - Action **Create an ecommerce order** Create a Deep Data ecommerce order record. - Action **Create a note** Create a free-text note attached to a CRM object. - Action **Create an SMS broadcast** Create a new SMS broadcast message to a recipient list. - Action **Create a pipeline** Creates a new pipeline (deal group) in ActiveCampaign. - Action **Create a secondary contact** Associate an additional contact with a deal. - Action **Create or update custom-object record** Upsert a custom-object (schema) record. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact by ID. - Action **Delete custom contact object record** Deletes a record from the specified custom contact object. - Action **Delete deal** Deletes an existing deal. - Action **Delete deal stage** Deletes an existing deal stage. - Action **Delete list** Deletes a list by ID. - Action **Delete note** Delete a note by ID. - Action **Delete tag** Deletes a tag by ID. - Action **Delete task** Deletes a task by ID in ActiveCampaign - Action **Duplicate campaign** Duplicates an ActiveCampaign campaign by ID - Action **Edit campaign** Edits an existing campaign in ActiveCampaign - Action **Find account by name** Finds an existing account by name. Returns matching accounts. - Action **Find contact by custom field** Finds an existing contact by the value of a custom field. Provide the custom field's numeric ID and the value to search for. - Action **Find contacts by custom field** Finds contacts by the selected custom field. May return zero, one, or multiple contact IDs. Use the "Get contact" action to fetch a contact's details. - Action **Find deal by title** Finds an existing deal by title. An error occurs if a single exact match is not found. - Action **Find user by email** Finds an existing user by email. An error occurs if a matching user is not found. - Action **Get account** Returns account info for the specified account ID. - Action **Get all deal stages from specified pipeline** Get all deal stages belonging to a pipeline, looked up by pipeline name. Returns each stage's title (Stage name) and id (Stage ID). - Action **Get automation** Fetches an automation by ID. An error occurs if the automation is not found. - Action **Get campaign** Retrieves a single campaign from ActiveCampaign by its ID. - Action **Get contact** Get contact by ID. An error occurs if the contact is not found. - Action **Get contact by email** Returns full contact details for the specified email address. An error occurs if the contact is not found. - Action **Get contact's deals** Returns all deals associated with the specified contact. - Action **Get contact's lists** Returns all lists the specified contact belongs to. - Action **Get contact's tags** Returns all tags associated with the specified contact. - Action **Get deal** Returns deal info for the specified deal ID. - Action **Get form** Retrieve a single ActiveCampaign form by its ID. - Action **Get list** Returns a single contact list by its id, including its name, sender information and subscriber counts. - Action **Get note** Retrieve a single note by its ID. - Action **Get score** Retrieve a single lead/contact scoring rule by its ID. - Action **Get segment** Retrieve a single ActiveCampaign segment by ID. - Action **Get tag** Fetches a tag by ID. An error occurs if the tag is not found. - Action **Get task** Retrieves a task by ID from ActiveCampaign - Action **List all campaigns** List email campaigns. - Action **List all pipelines** List deal pipelines. - Action **List all scores** List the account's lead/contact scoring rules. - Action **List all stages** List deal pipeline stages. - Action **List all tasks** List CRM tasks. - Action **List automations** Returns a paginated list of all automations. - Action **List contacts** Returns a paginated list of all contacts. - Action **List custom contact object records** Returns a paginated list of all records for the specified custom contact object. - Action **List deals** Returns a paginated list of all deals. - Action **List lists** Returns a paginated list of all contact lists. - Action **List tags** Returns a paginated list of all tags. - Action **Move deal to another stage** Move a deal to a different pipeline stage. - Action **Remove contact from automation** Removes a contact from an automation by deleting the contact automation record. - Action **Remove contact from list** Removes a contact from the specified list. - Action **Remove tag from contact** Removes a tag from a contact by the contactTag association ID. - Action **Remove tags from contact** Removes the provided tags (by name, comma-separated) from a contact identified by email or contact ID. - Action **Set automation status** Enables or disables an automation. Set status to '1' to enable or '0' to disable. - Action **Set custom field value for contact** Create or update a contact's custom field value. - Action **Set deal currency custom field value** Set the value for a deal's custom field of the "currency" type - Action **Update account** Updates the specified account. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing contact having the specified ID. - Action **Update deal** Updates an existing deal. - Action **Update tag** Updates an existing tag. - Action **Update task** Updates a task by ID in ActiveCampaign - Trigger **Email Sent** Fires when an email is sent from the mailbox (optionally filtered by query). - Trigger **New Gmail Message** Fires when a new email arrives (optionally filtered by query/labels). - Action **Add Label To Email** Adds and/or removes specified gmail labels for a message; ensure `message id` and all `label ids` are valid (use 'listlabels' for custom label ids). - Action **Batch Delete Messages** Tool to permanently delete multiple Gmail messages in bulk, bypassing Trash with no recovery possible. Use when you need to efficiently remove large numbers of emails (e.g., retention enforcement, mailbox hygiene). Use GMAIL_MOVE_TO_TRASH instead when reversibility may be needed. Always obtain explicit user confirmation and verify a sample of message IDs before executing. High-volume calls may trigger 429 rateLimitExceeded or 403 userRateLimitExceeded errors; apply exponential backoff. - Action **Batch Modify Messages** Modify labels on multiple Gmail messages in one efficient API call. Supports up to 1,000 messages per request for bulk operations like archiving, marking as read/unread, or applying custom labels. High-volume calls may return 429 rateLimitExceeded or 403 userRateLimitExceeded; apply exponential backoff. - Action **Create Email Draft** Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading. - Action **Create Label** Creates a new label with a unique name in the specified user's gmail account. - Action **Delete Draft** Permanently deletes a specific gmail draft using its id; ensure the draft exists and the user has necessary permissions for the given `user id`. - Action **Delete Label** Permanently DELETES a user-created Gmail label from the account (not from a message). WARNING: This action DELETES the label definition itself, removing it from all messages. System labels (INBOX, SENT, UNREAD, etc.) cannot be deleted. To add/remove labels from specific messages, use GMAIL_ADD_LABEL_TO_EMAIL action instead. - Action **Delete Message** Permanently deletes a specific email message by its id from a gmail mailbox; for `user id`, use 'me' for the authenticated user or an email address to which the authenticated user has delegated access. - Action **Delete Thread** Tool to immediately and permanently delete a specified thread and all its messages. This operation cannot be undone. Use threads.trash instead for reversible deletion. - Action **Fetch Emails** Fetches a list of email messages from a gmail account, supporting filtering, pagination, and optional full content retrieval. - Action **Fetch Message By Message Id** Fetches a specific email message by its id, provided the `message id` exists and is accessible to the authenticated `user id`. - Action **Fetch Message By Thread Id** Retrieves messages from a gmail thread using its `thread id`, where the thread must be accessible by the specified `user id`. - Action **Forward Message** Forward an existing Gmail message to specified recipients, preserving original body and attachments. Verify recipients and content before forwarding to avoid unintended exposure. Bulk forwarding may trigger 429/5xx rate limits; keep concurrency to 5–10 and apply backoff. Messages near Gmail's size limits may fail; reconstruct a smaller draft if needed. - Action **Get Attachment** Retrieves a specific attachment by id from a message in a user's gmail mailbox, requiring valid message and attachment ids. - Action **Get Contacts** Fetches contacts (connections) for the authenticated google account, allowing selection of specific data fields and pagination. - Action **Get Draft** Retrieves a single Gmail draft by its ID. Use this to fetch and inspect draft content before sending via GMAIL_SEND_DRAFT. The format parameter controls the level of detail returned. - Action **Get Filter** Tool to retrieve a specific Gmail filter by its ID. Use when you need to inspect the criteria and actions of an existing filter. - Action **Get Label** Gets details for a specified Gmail label. Use this to retrieve label information including name, type, visibility settings, message/thread counts, and color. - Action **Get People** Retrieves either a specific person's details (using `resource name`) or lists 'other contacts' (if `other contacts` is true), with `person fields` specifying the data to return. - Action **Get Profile** Retrieves key gmail profile information (email address, message/thread totals, history id) for a user. - Action **Import Message** Tool to import a message into the user's mailbox with standard email delivery scanning and classification. Use when you need to add an existing email to a Gmail account without sending it through SMTP. This method doesn't perform SPF checks, so it might not work for some spam messages. - Action **Insert Message** Tool to insert a message into the user's mailbox similar to IMAP APPEND. Use when you need to add an email directly to a mailbox bypassing most scanning and classification. This does not send a message. - Action **List Drafts** Retrieves a paginated list of email drafts from a user's gmail account. use verbose=true to get full draft details including subject, body, sender, and timestamp. - Action **List History** Tool to list Gmail mailbox change history since a known startHistoryId. Use for incremental mailbox syncs. Persist the latest historyId as a checkpoint across sessions; without it, incremental sync is unreliable. An empty history list in the response is valid and means no new changes occurred. - Action **List Labels** Retrieves a list of all system and user-created labels for the specified gmail account. - Action **List Smime Info** Lists S/MIME configs for the specified send-as alias. Use when you need to retrieve all S/MIME certificate configurations associated with a specific send-as email address. - Action **List Threads** Retrieves a list of email threads from a gmail account, identified by `user id` (email address or 'me'), supporting filtering and pagination. - Action **Modify Thread Labels** Adds or removes specified existing label ids from a gmail thread, affecting all its messages; ensure the thread id is valid. - Action **Move Thread To Trash** Moves the specified thread to the trash. Any messages that belong to the thread are also moved to the trash. - Action **Move To Trash** Moves an existing, non-deleted email message to the trash for the specified user. - Action **Patch Label** Patches the specified label. - Action **Remove Label** Permanently deletes a specific, existing user-created gmail label by its id for a user; cannot delete system labels. - Action **Reply To Thread** Sends a reply within a specific gmail thread using the original thread's subject, requiring a valid `thread id` and correctly formatted email addresses. supports attachments via the `attachment` parameter with valid `s3key`, `mimetype`, and `name`. - Action **Search People** Searches contacts by matching the query against names, nicknames, emails, phone numbers, and organizations, optionally including 'other contacts'. - Action **Send Draft** Sends the specified, existing draft to the recipients in the to, cc, and bcc headers. - Action **Send Email** Sends an email via gmail api using the authenticated user's google profile display name, requiring `is html=true` if the body contains html and valid `s3key`, `mimetype`, `name` for any attachment. - Action **Settings Send As Get** Tool to retrieve a specific send-as alias configuration for a Gmail user. Use when you need to get details about a send-as email address including display name, signature, SMTP settings, and verification status. Fails with HTTP 404 if the specified address is not a member of the send-as collection. - Action **Untrash Message** Tool to remove a message from trash in Gmail. Use when you need to restore a previously trashed email message. - Action **Untrash Thread** Tool to remove a thread from trash in Gmail. Use when you need to restore a deleted thread and its messages. - Action **Update Draft** Updates (replaces) an existing Gmail draft's content in-place by draft ID. This action replaces the entire draft content with the new message - it does not patch individual fields. All fields are optional; if not provided, you should provide complete draft content to avoid data loss. - Action **Update Label** Tool to update the properties of an existing Gmail label. Use when you need to modify label name, visibility settings, or color. ## Each app on its own - [ **ActiveCampaign** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/activecampaign) - [ **Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connections/gmail) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from ActiveCampaign - [ **ActiveCampaign to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-hubspot) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-salesforce) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-google-sheets) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Google Drive** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-google-drive) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-stripe) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-shopify) ## More into Gmail - [ **Slack to Gmail** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-gmail) - [ **Google Drive to Gmail** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-gmail) - [ **Mailchimp to Gmail** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-gmail) - [ **Stripe to Gmail** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stripe-to-gmail) - [ **Shopify to Gmail** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-gmail) - [ **Trello to Gmail** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/trello-to-gmail) Questions ## ActiveCampaign and Gmail, answered ### ### Can the agent write back to ActiveCampaign after an email is sent? Yes. The Email Sent trigger in Gmail can feed actions such as Add note to contact, Add or update contact by email or Update contact in ActiveCampaign, so the record reflects what was sent. ### ### Does the Gmail message have to be sent right away, or can a person check it first? Either works. Gmail has both Send Email and Create Email Draft, so the agent can send directly from an ActiveCampaign trigger or leave a draft in the mailbox for someone to review and send. ### ### What can start an automation from ActiveCampaign? Any of ActiveCampaign's 19 triggers in the catalog, including Contact unsubscribed from list, New deal, Tag added to contact and Deal task completed. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Gmail when something happens in ActiveCampaign? Any of Gmail's 41 actions, including Create Email Draft, Send Email, Create Label and Send Draft. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Gmail to ActiveCampaign? Yes. When something happens in Gmail, your agent can act in ActiveCampaign too. This page covers both directions: Gmail's triggers and ActiveCampaign's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for ActiveCampaign or Gmail? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use ActiveCampaign and Gmail without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.