Connect Gmail to MileIntel

Overview

Connect Gmail and MileIntel turns your inbox into your travel history. Booking confirmations become trips on their own, and loyalty emails keep your points and miles balances current in your wallet. No manual entry, no copying confirmation numbers by hand.

How to Connect

1. Open your Dashboard and go to Settings.
2. Select the Gmail section.
3. Click Connect Gmail.
4. Google asks you to authorize MileIntel. Review the permissions and click Allow.
5. MileIntel scans for travel-related emails. Your first sync can take a minute or two depending on inbox size.
6. Check your Dashboard. Detected trips and updated balances appear automatically.

You can connect more than one Gmail or Outlook account from the same screen if you book across multiple inboxes.

What MileIntel Reads (and Never Does)

We read travel and loyalty emails only, never anything else:

• Flights, hotels, and rental cars from booking confirmation emails
• Points balances and expirations from loyalty program emails

We never read personal emails, work emails, attachments, drafts, or sent mail, and we never send, delete, or modify anything in your inbox. Access is read-only.

Reconnecting

Google occasionally revokes or expires the access it granted MileIntel. When that happens for a few sync attempts in a row, MileIntel pauses that connection instead of failing silently, and the account shows a Reconnect needed badge in Settings → Gmail.

To fix it:

1. Go to Settings → Gmail.
2. Find the account marked Reconnect needed and click Reconnect.
3. Sign back in with Google and approve access again.

Reconnecting doesn't lose anything — trips and wallet data already synced stay exactly as they are. It just restores future auto-detection.

Disconnecting

1. Go to Settings → Gmail.
2. Find the account you want to remove and click the trash icon next to it.
3. Confirm Disconnect.

Disconnecting stops future syncing from that inbox, but trips and wallet updates already created stay in MileIntel. Your primary Gmail account can't be disconnected while it's your only connected account. Add another account first, or make a different one primary.

You can also revoke MileIntel's access directly from Google at myaccount.google.com/permissions, which has the same effect as disconnecting.

Tips

1. Connect the Gmail account you use for booking flights. If you book through a travel agent or corporate system that sends to a different inbox, you can always add trips manually too.

Troubleshooting

Issue: No trips detected after connecting Gmail. Fix: Give it a couple of minutes for the initial scan. If nothing appears, make sure your booking confirmation emails are in your inbox (not in Trash or a filter that skips the inbox).Issue: A trip was detected with wrong details. Fix: Click into the trip on your Dashboard and edit the fields manually. Detection improves over time as MileIntel learns your booking patterns.Issue: The account shows "Reconnect needed" every few weeks. Fix: This usually means Google's session for that account expires faster than others (common on managed/work Google accounts). Reconnecting is safe to repeat as often as needed.