This feature allows you to convert an email to SMS message (email to text). It supports both email to SMS and email to MMS.
This powerful function works by taking your created emails, converting them to SMS format, and then sending the SMS texts to your specified recipients. SMSEagle converts your email to SMS so that you can reach as many recipients as you’d like. You may:
Email to SMS allows you to conveniently contact a specified recipient by converting your Email to an SMS text message.
Email to SMS allows you to contact a group of recipients by converting your Email to many SMS messages.
SMS to Email allows you to conveniently view replies to your SMS messages in your Email inbox.
(*) This solution can go both ways, the recipients can send an SMS (text message) and you can receive SMS via email. See SMS to Email for more details.
If the function is enabled, email sent to the email address:
PHONE_NUMBER@IP_ADDRESS_OF_SMSEAGLE
will be converted to SMS message.
where:
PHONE_NUMBER – is a destination phone number
IP_ADDRESS_OF_SMSEAGLE – is the IP address of your device.
The text of the email is the text of the SMS message (optionally you can append email subject at the beginning of SMS message).
Example: email message sent to the address: 123456789@192.168.0.101 will be converted to SMS message and delivered to phone number 123456789.
This feature is available in software version 2.5 and higher. Email sent to the email address:
NAME_IN_PHONEBOOK@IP_ADDRESS_OF_SMSEAGLE
will be converted to SMS message and will be sent to a user or users group from SMSEagle’s phonebook.
where:
NAME_IN_PHONEBOOK – is a username or group name (must be a public group) from SMSEagle’s phonebook
IP_ADDRESS_OF_SMSEAGLE – is the IP address of your device.
The text of the email is the text of the SMS message (optionally you can append email subject at the beginning of SMS message).
Example: email message sent to the address: db-admins@192.168.0.101 will be converted to SMS message and delivered to all members of db-admin group. The db-admin group must be defined in your SMSEagle phonebook.
It is also possible to use Fully Qualified Domain Name in an email address sent to SMSEagle box (eg.: 123456789@mydomain.com). Please refer to our FAQ article: How do I configure Email2SMS plugin to accept FQDN email addresses for more details.
If your company uses LDAP (Active Directory or OpenLDAP) for contacts management, you may use LDAP Contacts or Groups to send email to SMS text message.
Example: email message sent to the address: myldap-admins1@192.168.0.101 will be converted to SMS message and delivered to all members of myldap-admins1 group. The myldap-admins1 group must be defined in your LDAP directory and LDAP plugin must be configured on your SMSEagle device.
For your convenience “Email To SMS” feature allows you to add several rules that define what happens with incoming email.
For each rule a user can define:
If you want to use user authentication, set ‘What to do with email subject’ setting to ‘Use for authentication’. If user authentication is enabled, provide in a subject of an email your login and password in the following form: login=john&pass=doe OR provide API access token in the following form: access_token=toke
SMS message that was converted from email can be optionally followed by a wake-up call or text-to-speech call. This can be enabled in the rule definition. The feature requires a device with active Voice-Call add-on.
