Small teams and online communities often split their day between a Gmail inbox and a Discord server. FlowMattic moves the important parts across: unread or alert emails become channel posts, and mentions, forum posts and announcements in Discord become emails or Gmail drafts. Each workflow runs from your own WordPress site.
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When this happens in Discord6 triggers
Do this in Gmail18 actions
1. TriggerNew Message Posted to Channel
2. ActionSend Email
When Discord fires New Message Posted to Channel, FlowMattic runs Send Email in Gmail with the data from that event.
You build this in the FlowMattic workflow builder on your own site. See the setup steps
Gmail and Discord workflows you can build
Each one uses only triggers and actions the two integrations ship today, plus FlowMattic's own tools. Where the library has a ready-made template, import it instead of building from scratch.
Ready-made template
Post unread Gmail emails to Discord at the end of each day
A daily Schedule finds unread emails, posts a reminder for each one in a channel and marks it read, so the team sees what is still waiting before they log off.
Schedule→Find Multiple Emails→Iterator→Send Channel Message→Mark Email as Read
Forward hosting and payment alerts into an ops channel
Every hour, emails from your monitoring or payment provider are posted to the ops channel and labelled as posted, so outages and failed charges are discussed where the team works.
Schedule→Find Multiple Emails→Iterator→Send Channel Message→Add Label to Email
Email the support inbox when someone mentions the support role
A mention of your support role in a text or announcement channel sends an email to the shared support address, so the question joins the normal ticket queue.
New Mention in Text and Announcements→Send Email
Turn Discord announcements into email drafts
Each message in your announcements channel becomes a Gmail draft with the same text, ready for you to tidy and send to members who are not on Discord.
New Message Posted to Channel→Text Formatter→Create Draft
Email the product lead an AI summary of new feedback posts
When a post opens in the feedback forum, an AI Agent condenses it into the request, the reason and the urgency, and Gmail sends that summary to the product lead.
New Forum Post→AI Agent→Send Email
Get an email when you are mentioned in a thread
If you check email more often than Discord, mentions of you in threads and forum posts arrive in Gmail with a link back, so replies do not wait until your next login.
New Mention in Threads and Forum Posts→Filter→Send Email
Set up: daily unread email reminders
When you finish, every evening your unread Gmail emails are posted to a Discord channel and marked read.
1
Connect Gmail and Discord
In FlowMattic, add the Gmail account to check and the Discord server to post to under Connects.
2
Set the Schedule
Start a workflow with Schedule and pick a daily time near the end of your working day.
3
Find the emails
Add Find Multiple Emails with a search for unread messages, then an Iterator over the list it returns.
4
Post and mark read
Inside the loop, add Send Channel Message with the sender and subject, then Mark Email as Read with the thread ID. Test it and switch the workflow on.
New Message Posted to ChannelTriggers when a new message is posted to a specific text channel
New Forum PostTriggers when a new Post is created on a Forum
New Forum MessageTriggers when a new Message is created on a Forum Post
New User AddedTriggers when a new user joins the Discord Server
New Mention in Text and AnnouncementsTriggers when a User or Role is mentioned in a Text or Announcements channel
New Mention in Threads and Forum PostsTriggers when a User or Role is mentioned in a Threads or Forum Posts channel
Actions (12)
Add RoleAdd a role to a user
Remove User RoleRemove a chosen role from the specified user
Send Channel MessagePost a new message to a specific #channel you choose
Send message in Forum PostSend a new message in a specific Forum Post
Create new Forum PostCreate a new Post on a Forum Channel
Create ChannelCreate a new channel or category
Create Channel CategoryCreate a new channel category that hold other channels
Rename ChannelRename a channel to a specific name you choose
Send Direct MessageSend a direct message to a specific user
Find UserFind an existing user by name
Find ChannelFind an existing channel by matching name
Get Channel By NameGet an existing channel by exact name
Why run this pair with FlowMattic
Gmail and Discord connect through FlowMattic on your own site, with no separate automation account in the middle and no charge per run.
Your inbox stays private
You choose the search, so only the emails you mean to share reach Discord, and they pass through your own WordPress server.
Check as often as you like
Runs are unlimited, so an hourly inbox check costs the same as a daily one.
Drafts before sending
Gmail's Create Draft and Send Draft actions let a person read anything written from Discord before it leaves your account.
Common questions
What can a Gmail Discord integration do?
It can post selected emails to Discord channels on a schedule, and it can turn Discord mentions, forum posts or channel messages into Gmail emails or drafts. You build each direction as its own workflow on the FlowMattic builder.
Can each email be posted the moment it arrives?
Gmail has no trigger here, so emails are found by a Schedule that runs as often as you set. Pick a short interval for alerts and a daily one for summaries.
Can I reply to an email from Discord?
Yes, with some setup. Post the email's thread ID with the message, then a workflow on a reply channel can use Reply to Email or Create Draft Reply with that ID.
Can I send the email's attachment to Discord?
Get Email Details returns the message's details. Whether the file can be posted depends on the data it returns, so test the step with a real email before relying on it.
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Reviewed 23 Oct 2026. The example workflows are written with AI from the real triggers and actions of both integrations and checked against them. Gmail integration 1.2.0, Discord integration 1.1.1.