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To use Google Apps Script to send an interactive Gmail and receive their response, you can follow these steps:

1. Create a new Google Sheet in your Google Drive.

2. Click on Tools > Script Editor. This will open the Google Apps Script editor in a new tab.

3. In the editor, create a new script by clicking on File > New > Script file.

4. In the new script file, write the code to send an email with interactive options using the Gmail API. Here’s an example:

javascript
function sendEmail() {
  var recipient = 'email@example.com';
  var subject = 'Interactive email';
  var message = 'Please select an option:';
  var options = ['Option 1', 'Option 2', 'Option 3'];
  var htmlBody = '<form><select name="option">' +
                 options.map(option => '<option>' + option + '</option>').join('') +
                 '</select><br><input type="submit" value="Submit"></form>';
  
  var messageObject = {
    to: recipient,
    subject: subject,
    body: message,
    htmlBody: htmlBody
  };
  
  var message = Gmail.newMessage();
  message.setTo(recipient)
         .setSubject(subject)
         .setBody(message)
         .setHtmlBody(htmlBody)
         .setOptions(GmailApp.getMessageById(message.getId()).getRawContent())
         .send();
}

This code sends an email to the specified recipient with a select dropdown form containing three options. When the recipient selects an option and submits the form, their response will be sent back to your Google Sheet.

1. Save the script and give it a name.

2. In the Script Editor, click on the Run button to run the script. This will prompt you to authorize the script to access your Google Account.

3. After authorizing the script, you can run the script again to send the email.

4. To receive the responses from the interactive email, you need to create a Google Form that corresponds to the options in the email. In the Google Sheet you created in step 1, click on Tools > Create a form.

5. In the form editor, create a question for each option in the email. For example, if the email contained three options, create three questions with the same options in the email.

6. Save the form and close the form editor.

7. In the Script Editor, add the following code to receive the responses from the form:

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function onFormSubmit(e) {
  var response = e.response.getItemResponses()[0].getResponse();
  Logger.log(response);
}

This code logs the response from the first question in the form to the script’s log.

1. Save the script and go back to the Google Sheet.

2. Click on the three dots menu in the form editor and select Script editor.

3. In the Script Editor, click on Edit > Current project’s triggers.

4. Click on the Add Trigger button and configure the trigger to run the onFormSubmit function when the form is submitted.

5. Save the trigger and close the Script Editor.

Now, when a recipient responds to the interactive email, their response will be recorded in the Google Sheet, and you can use the response to trigger other actions in your script.