Will Grist support time based email notifications and outbound smtp email integration?

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Hi,

Its very common for CRM systems to connect to an email account to send emails. Will that be supported in the future?

Also, will time based emails be supported? Ex: If Today is Reminder Due Date, Send Email.

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Hi KAM,

I’m not a Grist expert but I think this is currently possible using third-party automation software like n8n, see this webinar: https://www.getgrist.com/webinars/how-to-set-up-grist-automations-with-n8n/

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If you’re using the full Grist edition, automations can send custom email notifications to users who have access to the document. For time-based triggers, you’ll need to use a third party integration like n8n for now.

If you’re on the Community edition, the webinar above showing how to do it with webhooks works.

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Great, glad to know email notifications can be sent. It’d be nice to have time-based notifications without relying on third-party software as the email service itself is already the third-party integration, and pretty much every other tool I’ve used that supports sending email also supports scheduling/automation natively.

Will this be supported in the planned future?

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Definitely on our radar, but no timeline at the moment.