A processor has all the required configuration that is needed to to send an Email notification when someone submits a form.You may have multiple processors to send different Email notifications.You may decide to send  different Emails with different content  to yourself and the respondent who submitted the form.

Processor name signifies an easily identifiable name that you can give while creating a processor .Let's say you have a processor named FormOwner and another processor named Respondent .You may use the FormOwner processor to notify yourself and others with in your org when someone submits a form.You may use Respondent processor to notify the user with an acknowledgement indicating you have received the response.

From Name or Sender name  is the name displayed in recipient's email inbox. It's different from the email address or the sender address.This is an important field that provides you the opportunity to promote your brand or establish your relationship with your recipients.

This is optional and if you do not provide any value the default name associated with your gmail account will be used . You may also be able to change the name associated with your email address following instructions given here.

This maps to the "TO" field in other email clients you use to send emails to.The data from this field is used to send emails to the main recipients of  your email.You can specify multiple email addresses separated by commas.You may have a use case where you are asking the user to provide email address during form submit and want to include the output from specific fields.In that case you can use our dynamic form field expression syntax which will automatically read the value from the field for the particular form response and include the email address(es) while sending the email.For example if you have a Short answer question  in your form Provide your Email then the expression you can use is {{ Provide your Email }}.Please note that if you change the question title in future you have to change this also.

This maps to the "CC" field in other email clients you use to send emails to.You can specify multiple email addresses separated by commas.You may have a use case where you are asking the user to provide email address during form submit and want to include the output from specific fields.In that case you can use our dynamic form field expression syntax which will automatically read the value from the field for the particular form response and include the email address(es) while sending the email.For example if you have a Short answer question  in your form Provide your Email then the expression you can use is {{ Provide your Email }}. Please note that if you change the question title in future you have to change this also.

This maps to the "BCC" field in other email clients you use to send emails to.You can specify multiple email addresses separated by commas.You may have a use case where you are asking the user to provide email address during form submit and want to include the output from specific fields.In that case you can use our dynamic form field expression syntax which will automatically read the value from the field for the particular form response and include the email address(es) while sending the email.For example if you have a Short answer question  in your form Provide your Email then the expression you can use is {{ Provide your Email }}.Please note that if you change the question title in future you have to change this also.

When Email recipients reply to an Email by default they are sent to the same address from which the original Email was sent.However there are times when you want the replies to be sent to different Email address automatically. In that case there is an option to change the Reply to address .You can set a different Reply-to address for your gmail account by following the instructions here . Reply-to address in Form Email Notifications is an optional field .However if it's set this will take the precedence over other settings in your gmail account.

Did  you know that you can send email from another gmail or non gmail address from inside your original gmail  account.You can find more information on how to add aliases or other gmail address to your original gmail account here . Form Email Notifications will automatically populate all your aliases and allow you to specify which email address you want to use while sending email. You can do this by selecting the right email address from From Email  drop down.This field is optional and if not set your default gmail settings will be used.

You can set the subject of the Email in this field.This field supports both the static and the dynamic form field expressions. For example you can set a subject like Google form {{ Form Name}} has a new response!!! and when the email is sent Form Email Notifications will replace {{ Form Name}} with the actual form name  .

You set the body of the Email using this field.You can use all the available static and dynamic expressions in this field. They are automatically populated for you in two different drop downs.

There are times when you want to send an acknowledgement to your respondent when the respondent submits the google form.To be able to send an email acknowledgement you need the email of the form respondent.You can get the submitter email in several ways.

Google form can automatically get the respondent email.This requires a setting that can be done at individual form level or for all the new forms in your account.To allow google to collect Email address for all the new forms open a google form and click on Preferences from the three dot menu on the top right corner.Then select 

Collect email addresses and save the settings.

Sometimes you may have a need to have all the responses as an attachment .If you need a PDF attachment of all the answers select this field .You have the option to select a name for your PDF file and you can use the static and dynamic expressions to decide the file name.For example you can use {{Form Name}} as the pdf file name and the attached PDF file will use your form name.

You may want to display your brand logo in the top of the attached PDF. To do this you can have a logo in your google drive .Once you opt for PDF attachment , you see an option to select a logo from your google drive .The selected logo will now be placed in the top of the generated PDF.