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# Message a channel by email
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This feature is not available on self-hosted Zulip servers where
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the [incoming email gateway][email-gateway] has not been
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configured by a system administrator.
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[email-gateway]: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/email-gateway.html
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You can send emails to Zulip channels. This can be useful:
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* If you have an email that you want to discuss on Zulip
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* For mirroring mailing list traffic
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* For integrating a third-party app that can send emails, but which does not
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easily lend itself to a more direct integration
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If you're planning on doing this in an automated way, and have some
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programming experience, another option is to use our [send message
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API](/api/send-message).
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### Message a channel by email
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{start_tabs}
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{relative|gear|channel-settings}
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1. Select a channel.
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{!select-channel-view-general.md!}
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1. Click **Generate email address** under **Email address**.
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1. Toggle the configuration options as desired.
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1. Click **Copy address** to add the channel email address to your clipboard.
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1. Send an email to that address.
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{end_tabs}
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The email subject will become the Zulip topic, and the email body will
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become the Zulip message.
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Note that it may take up to one minute for the message to show
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up in Zulip.
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## Configuration options
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The options below control which parts of the email are included in the
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Zulip message.
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* **The sender's email address**: Adds `From: <Sender email address>` to
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the top of the Zulip message.
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* **Email footers**: By default, Zulip tries to automatically remove some footer
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text (like signatures). With this option enabled, Zulip will include all footers.
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* **Quoted original email**: In many email clients, when you reply to a message
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(e.g., a message notification email), a copy of the original message is
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automatically added to the bottom of your reply. By default, Zulip tries
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to remove that copied message. With this option enabled, Zulip will include it.
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* **Use html encoding**: The body of an email is typically encoded using
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one or both of two common formats: plain text (`text/plain`) and
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HTML (`text/html`). Zulip supports constructing the Zulip message
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content using either (converting HTML to Markdown for the HTML
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format). By default, Zulip will prefer using the plain text version
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of an email over the converted HTML version if both are present.
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Enabling this option overrides that behavior to prefer the HTML version
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instead.
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## Related articles
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* [Using Zulip via email](/help/using-zulip-via-email)
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