A Gmail connector gives your assistant authorized tools to search and read a mailbox. Connecting doesn't mean the assistant has read your mail. Each time you ask, it runs a new search and works from the messages that search returns, which is why a sender, a rough date and a few subject words help it find the right one, and why “not found” describes that particular search. What it finds is also one moment in a changing conversation: an early estimate, a later confirmation or a question still open. Finding a message and establishing the current agreement are different achievements, so the assistant needs to preserve the sender, timing and conditions behind its answer. The connection also has its own authority. Google's permissions and the assistant's action controls determine what it can access or do; your request describes the work you authorize within those limits. We'll connect the intended account and test a familiar message against Gmail, so you can see how retrieval works before depending on it for an unfamiliar business question.

Choose an ordinary message with a useful fact in its text, such as a client's agreed meeting time. Keep the original open and note the answer separately. A known answer lets you judge whether the assistant found the right message and preserved its meaning. Give it the sender, approximate date, subject words and question, without giving away the answer.

Begin with an account approved for the work and a fact in the message body. That avoids making the first test depend on an attachment the connection may be unable to read. When your later question concerns today's agreement, relevant replies and changes will need checking too.