Hello,
My company has tried to achieve this in the past and we ran into a roadblack a couple months ago. We would like to log emails automatically in order to build our contact database without having to manually create contacts.
Our main hurddle is logging the emails shows the email on the activity feed. Has anything been changed in hubspot on the way emails are logged or is their some kind of restriction we can put on users in order to prevent them from seeing the emails?
Thank you
Hey @DHeinlein
It sounds like you’re looking to automatically log emails to build your contact database in HubSpot, but you’re facing issues with the emails appearing in the activity feed and potentially being visible to users.
This is possible in HubSpot to log and track emails automatically with the HubSpot sales chrome extension:
You can check this Knowledge to understand how to implement this in your portal: Track and log emails with the HubSpot Sales Chrome extension | Knowledge Base
Let me know if you have any follow-up questions. I’d be happy to help.
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Jigar Thakker
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Hi @DHeinlein,
Emails can be logged automatically via the HubSpot Sales extensions: Install HubSpot Sales for Gmail, Office 365, and Outlook desktop | Knowledge Base
HubSpot does not differentiate between contact viewing permissions and email viewing permissions. If you don’t want someone to be able to see emails, you need to adjust their permissions in a way that they don’t see the contact, see here:
In other words, if someone can see a contact, they can also see all emails on that contact.
Best regards!
I don’t think you got an answer for your question.. In case I’m right and you mean, incoming email that doesn’t belong to an existing thread is not being logged in HubSpot, this is expected and how the feature works. Logging is only for emails you send and other emails can only be logged manually by ticking the box in the Sales extension, or by forwarding to the CRM.
You’re hitting a common friction point. Auto-logging emails into HubSpot without manual contact creation is doable, but the activity feed visibility depends on how you log them. Native email sync (via Outlook or Gmail integration) will show on the timeline, but API-based logging sometimes doesn’t surface cleanly. I work on Email Classifier, which reads emails through your Outlook add-in, classifies them, and logs a native engagement to HubSpot with contact enrichment. The email body itself never gets stored, only the classification and metadata. Might be worth exploring if privacy compliance is also a concern for your team.