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).
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.
Step 3 - Generate App password for Gmail
Important: To create an app password, you need 2-Step Verification on your Google Account.
- Go to your Google Account.
- Select Security.
- Under "Signing in to Google," select 2-Step Verification.
- At the bottom of the page, select App passwords.
- Enter a name that helps you remember where you’ll use the app password.
- Select Generate.
- To enter the app password, follow the instructions on your screen. The app password is the 16-character code that generates on your device.
- Select Done.
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.
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.
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).
More information
- How to send SMS as E-mail through Gmail
- How to send SMS from POP3 / IMAP
- How to send SMPP SMS to E-mail