> Rally Help Center. Index of every page: https://rallywith.ai/help/llms.txt
> This chapter's pages: https://rallywith.ai/help/connecting-your-tools/llms.txt

# Google Mail and Calendar

> Let Rally search and read your Gmail, write drafts, send mail, and read and change your Google Calendar.

Google gets two cards on **Settings → Connections**, because mail and documents are different sorts of thing and you may want to share one and not the other. This page covers the first, **Google Mail + Calendar**. The second, for Drive, Docs and Sheets, has [the next page](https://rallywith.ai/help/connecting-your-tools/google-drive.md) to itself.

Your mail and calendar are always personal. The card has **Connect for me** only, and there is no shared Organization inbox connection.

Signing in to Rally with Google does not give Rally your Gmail or Calendar. It is a separate permission you give here.

## What Rally can do

With **Google Mail + Calendar** connected, Rally can:

- search your mail, including finding someone's address by their name
- read whole threads and single messages
- write drafts, which wait in your Gmail **Drafts** until you send them
- send mail
- list your calendars and read their events
- create events and change them, including adding or removing guests

Rally cannot delete mail or change labels.

> [!WARNING]
> Rally does not ask before each action. When you ask it to send an email, it sends it, and a sent email cannot be called back. When you ask it to add a guest to an event, Google sends that person a real invitation. If you want to check first, ask for a draft, or ask Rally to show you the event before it saves it.

## Connecting

1. Open **Settings → Connections** and find the **Google Mail + Calendar** card.
2. Click **Connect for me**.
3. Choose your Google account in the browser and approve access.
4. Come back to Rally. The card says **Connected**.

## Things to try

- "Find the thread with Dana about the offsite and draft a reply saying Thursday works."
- "Put a 30-minute call with Sam on Thursday afternoon."
- "What is on my calendar tomorrow, and is anything double-booked?"
- "Summarise the unread mail from this week that needs an answer from me."

## When it stops working

1. In **Settings → Connections**, look at the **Status** column for the **Google Mail + Calendar** row.
2. If it says **Reconnect required**, click **Refresh** and approve again in Google.
3. If the connection is healthy and Rally still cannot find a message or an event, look for it yourself in Gmail or Calendar with the same Google account. If you cannot see it, neither can Rally.

Next, [Google Drive, Docs and Sheets](https://rallywith.ai/help/connecting-your-tools/google-drive.md).