Guides
Send with Gmail
Connect personal Gmail or Google Workspace mailboxes to send a small number of personal emails a day. Replies arrive in Gmail as usual, and FounderDB picks them up automatically — no receiving setup needed for Gmail.
Use Gmail for a handful of high-trust emails a day. For volume, use Amazon SES: Gmail mailboxes that send lots of cold email get flagged.
Connect a mailbox
- Outreach → Mail accounts → Sending → Gmail → Connect Gmail.
- Pick the Google account and allow access. FounderDB asks to send email and read it (to spot replies and bounces). Your normal FounderDB sign-in is unaffected — this is a separate, outreach-only connection.
- You're back on Mail accounts with the mailbox marked Sending. Connecting with Google is the verification — nothing else to do.
Connect as many mailboxes as you like; FounderDB rotates sends across all verified ones.
Replies
FounderDB checks each connected mailbox every 2 minutes (inbox, spam and sent mail from the last 7 days):
- replies to your outreach are matched to the contact, advance or stop their sequence, and show in Inbox → To do;
- emails you send yourself from Gmail to a contact are added to their conversation;
- bounce notices mark the contact as undeliverable.
Limits and warm-up
A Gmail mailbox starts at 10 emails a day and adds 5 a day up to its cap (50 by default). Sends are spaced 4–18 minutes apart inside your sequence's send window. Google's own limits are far higher, but staying low keeps your mailbox out of spam folders.
If the connection breaks
If Google revokes access (password change, security review, or you removed FounderDB in your Google account), the mailbox shows Disconnected and you get an email. Click Reconnect; any sends that failed meanwhile are queued again.
Import past conversations
Import conversations on the mailbox scans its history and adds people you've already emailed as contacts (tagged imported) — useful so FounderDB doesn't cold-email someone you already know.