SMS as E-mail through Gmail

The Ozeki SMS Gateway can send messages through your Gmail's SMTP connection so it can forward SMS messages by email.

Step 1 - Add new Gmail connection

Gmail connection can be easily installed and configured through the browser GUI of Ozeki SMS Gateway. So first, open the SMS Gateway, and click on the Add new connection (Figure 1).

Add new connection
Figure 1 - Add new connection

Step 2 - Add Gmail client connection

Here, in this menu, scroll down to the E-mail clients submenu, and like in Figure 2, select Gmail client by clicking on Install.

Install Gmail client
Figure 2 - Install Gmail client

Step 3 - Generate App password for Gmail

Important: To create an app password, you need 2-Step Verification on your Google Account.

  1. Go to your Google Account.
  2. Select Security.
  3. Under "Signing in to Google," select 2-Step Verification.
  4. At the bottom of the page, select App passwords.
  5. Enter a name that helps you remember where you’ll use the app password.
  6. Select Generate.
  7. To enter the app password, follow the instructions on your screen. The app password is the 16-character code that generates on your device.
  8. Select Done.

Open 2 step verification
Figure 3 - Open 2 step verification

App Passwords menu
Figure 4 - App Passwords menu

Create new app password
Figure 5 - Create new app password

Save app password
Figure 6 - Save app password

Step 4 - Provide the Gmail settings

On the Name section provide the unique name for the Gmail client and for the authentication, provide the username and app password of you Gmail account.

Provice the Gmail settings
Figure 7 - Provice the Gmail settings

Step 5 - Enter recipient address

Now switch to the Advanced tab (Figure 8) and make sure the emails are sent to the correct address. In the textboxes you can set the default recipient name and address.

Enter recipient address
Figure 8 - Enter recipient address

Step 6 - SMS sent as e-mail

Finally in the Events tab you can see that when a message arrives on this SMTP client it is forwarded to the SMTP server which sends it to the recipient's email address (Figure 9).

SMS sent as e-mail
Figure 9 - SMS sent as e-mail

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