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id: sendgrid
title: SendGrid
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ToolJet can connect to your SendGrid account to send emails.

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## Connection

To establish a connection with the SendGrid datasource, you can either click on the **+ Add new Data source** button located on the query panel or navigate to the **[Data Sources](/docs/data-sources/overview)** page through the ToolJet dashboard.

ToolJet requires the following to connect to your SendGrid database:
- **SendGrid API key**

<img class="screenshot-full img-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/sendgrid/sendgrid-datasource-v2.png" alt="ToolJet - Data source - SendGrid" />

:::info
The SendGrid API Datasource supports for interaction with the mail endpoint of the [SendGrid v3 API](https://docs.sendgrid.com/api-reference/how-to-use-the-sendgrid-v3-api/authentication).
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## Querying SendGrid

1. Click on **+ Add** button of the query manager at the bottom panel of the editor.
2. Select the **SendGrid** datasource added in previous step.
3. Select **Email service** from the dropdown and enter the required parameters.
4. Click on the **Preview** button to preview the output or Click on the **Run** button to create and trigger the query.

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## Supported Operations

### Email Service

#### Required Parameters 
- Multiple recipients
- Send email to
- Send email from 
- Subject
- Body as text


#### Optional Parameter
- Sender Name
- Body as HTML

<img class="screenshot-full img-full" src="/img/datasource-reference/sendgrid/sendGrid-query.png" alt="ToolJet - Query SendGrid"/>


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**Send mail to** - accepts an array/list of emails separated by comma.
For example:
`{{["dev@tooljet.io", "admin@tooljet.io"]}}`.

**Send mail from** - accepts a string.
For example: `admin@tooljet.io`
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:::tip
**Send a single email to multiple recipients** - The `Send mail to` field can contain an array of recipients, which will send a single email with all of the recipients in the field. 

**Send multiple individual emails to multiple recipients** - set <b>Multiple recipients</b> field to `{{true}}` and the `Send mail to` field will be split into multiple emails and send to each recipient.
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