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# Gmail

> Search email, with live queries and real per-mailbox privacy.

Connect Indexbrain to Gmail to search your inbox and reference emails in conversations — read-only, and scoped to the person who connected it.

## Setup

<Steps>
  <Step title="Go to Integrations">
    Navigate to **Settings > Integrations > Gmail**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Authorize">
    Sign in with Google and grant read-only access.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Test the connection">
    Ask about a recent email.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Capabilities

### Search your inbox

```
What did the client say about the renewal timeline?
```

Inbox messages (excluding automated senders — notifications, mailers) are synced and searchable.

### Live email search

```
Find emails from Sarah about the contract.
```

A real live Gmail search — by sender, subject text, date range, or keyword — using Gmail's own search syntax, queried fresh rather than only searching what's already synced.

## Privacy: who can see what

**Knowledge extracted from your Gmail is only visible to you**, not the rest of your org — only the person who connected their Gmail can reference it in Indexbrain. This is different from most other integrations (which are org-wide), because a personal inbox is not shared company data.

## What Indexbrain does not do in Gmail (yet)

* **No attachments** — never fetched or parsed.
* **No write access** — Indexbrain cannot send, reply, or modify labels.

## How data moves

New inbox messages sync on your configured processing interval.

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="An email isn't showing up yet">
    * Automated senders (notifications, no-reply addresses) are excluded by design.
    * Otherwise, wait for the next scheduled sync, or trigger a manual sync.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="I reconnected Gmail — why did visibility change?">
    * Gmail connections made before July 2026 didn't have per-person scoping. Reconnecting applies the fix — content becomes visible only to you going forward.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>