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Problem/Question
- How do I receive an email as a slack message?
- How do I send email to a Slack channel as a message?
Overview
Slack has the option to create a unique email address to either receive emails as a message to yourself, or receive emails as a message to a private channel.
Solution
Sending email as a direct message to yourself
- From your desktop, click your profile picture in the tab bar.
- Select Preferences from the menu.
- Click Messages & media.
- Scroll down to Bring emails into Slack, then click Get a Forwarding Address. Slack will generate a forwarding email address.
- Click Copy and use the forwarding address to set up a forwarding rule in your email client if you’d like.
- If you need to stop forwarding emails, go to the Messages & media section of your preferences. Below your forwarding address, click Disable this address.
- Emails sent to this address will appear in your Direct Messages as from "SlackBot" under the "Apps" category in the sidebar
Sending email as a message to a Slack channel
- From your desktop, open the channel or DM you’d like to send email to.
- Click the channel or member name(s) in the conversation header.
- Click the Integrations tab.
- Select Send emails to this [channel] or [conversation].
- Click Get Email Address.
- If you’d like to set up an automatic forwarding rule from your email provider or add the email to your address book, click Copy next to the email address.
- You can also customize how the email will appear in the Slack channel with a custom name and user icon using the "Customize Email Appearance" button.
- If you created an email address for a channel, SlackBot will post a message that’s only visible to you with a prompt to let members know an email address has been created. Click Share Email Address to post a message to the channel with any details you’d like. Otherwise, click Dismiss.
For additional information, check out these links to additional information:
Send emails to Slack | Slack