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Message a channel by email

!!! tip ""

This feature is not available on self-hosted Zulip servers where
the [incoming email gateway][email-gateway] has not been
configured by a system administrator.
[email-gateway]: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/email-gateway.html

You can send emails to Zulip channels. This can be useful:

  • If you have an email that you want to discuss on Zulip

  • For mirroring mailing list traffic

  • For integrating a third-party app that can send emails, but which does not easily lend itself to a more direct integration

If you're planning on doing this in an automated way, and have some programming experience, another option is to use our send message API.

Message a channel by email

{start_tabs}

{relative|gear|channel-settings}

  1. Select a channel.

{!select-channel-view-general.md!}

  1. Click Generate email address under Email address.

  2. Toggle the configuration options as desired.

  3. Click Copy address to add the channel email address to your clipboard.

  4. Send an email to that address.

{end_tabs}

The email subject will become the Zulip topic, and the email body will become the Zulip message.

Note that it may take up to one minute for the message to show up in Zulip.

Configuration options

The options below control which parts of the email are included in the Zulip message.

  • The sender's email address: Adds From: <Sender email address> to the top of the Zulip message.

  • Email footers: By default, Zulip tries to automatically remove some footer text (like signatures). With this option enabled, Zulip will include all footers.

  • Quoted original email: In many email clients, when you reply to a message (e.g. a message notification email), a copy of the original message is automatically added to the bottom of your reply. By default, Zulip tries to remove that copied message. With this option enabled, Zulip will include it.

  • Use html encoding: The body of an email is typically encoded using one or both of two common formats: plain text (text/plain) and HTML (text/html). Zulip supports constructing the Zulip message content using either (converting HTML to Markdown for the HTML format). By default, Zulip will prefer using the plain text version of an email over the converted HTML version if both are present. Enabling this option overrides that behavior to prefer the HTML version instead.

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