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Add from_email (send-as alias) support to GMAIL_REPLY_TO_THREAD and GMAIL_CREATE_EMAIL_DRAFT #3543

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GMAIL_SEND_EMAIL supports from_email for verified send-as aliases, but GMAIL_REPLY_TO_THREAD and GMAIL_CREATE_EMAIL_DRAFT don't.

This makes it impossible to reply in-thread from an alias — a very common setup (one mailbox, multiple verified send-as domains). The current workaround forces a choice between:

  • a correctly-threaded reply from the wrong address (GMAIL_REPLY_TO_THREAD), or
  • a correctly-addressed reply that breaks threading on the sender's side (GMAIL_SEND_EMAIL with from_email, which can't take a thread_id).

Real-world impact: replying to an insurance claim thread (Zendesk-based) where the ticket is keyed to the alias address — neither tool can produce a reply that is both in-thread and from the right address, so the reply had to be sent manually.

Since the From-header logic already exists in GMAIL_SEND_EMAIL, this looks like porting one parameter to the other two tools (and ideally GMAIL_UPDATE_DRAFT as well).

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