Turn any email into an SMS alert / MMS message with SMSEagle’s Email to SMS feature. A perfect solution for IT teams, monitoring systems, and business-critical communications.
Email to SMS is a way to send a text message by sending a regular email. The message ends up on someone’s phone as an SMS. It’s often used by IT teams, businesses, or alert systems when they want to trigger a text from tools that can only send emails.
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.
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Hardware SMS Gateways and Online SMS Gateways are two options for businesses and organizations to send and receive SMS messages. Here we compare the key differences between these two options to help you determine which solution is best for your business needs.
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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.
An SMS address is an email-like format (e.g., 1234567890@vtext.com) used to send a text message via email through a mobile carrier’s gateway. This method depends on the recipient’s carrier and is being phased out or limited by many providers. SMSEagle doesn’t rely on this — it sends SMS directly using SIM cards.
It’s the mobile network the recipient uses (like T-Mobile, Vodafone, or Orange). If you send texts through email-to-SMS gateways, you need to know the carrier to format the address correctly. With SMSEagle, you don’t need the carrier info — just the phone number.
Two-way messaging means the recipient can reply to your SMS and their response comes back to your system. SMSEagle fully supports this using SIM cards. Just keep in mind that if you use a custom alphanumeric sender ID, replies won’t work — because it’s not a real number.
SMSEagle can automatically forward incoming SMS messages to email. You set this up in the SMS to Email section. You can use your own SMTP server or let SMSEagle send the messages directly using its built-in client.
Send an email to the SMSEagle’s email address (set in the device). It will convert the message into an SMS and deliver it via SIM — no carrier gateway needed. Make sure you whitelist the sender’s email in the settings.
A hardware SMS gateway (like SMSEagle) is a physical device with SIM cards that sends and receives SMS directly through mobile networks. It doesn’t rely on external APIs or internet-based services.
Benefits include:
No. SMS is sent via SIM cards and mobile networks. You only need internet access for using features like email-to-SMS, web interface access, API communication, or firmware updates.
That depends on the model:
Only the MHD-8100-4G model supports 8 modems/SIMs — great for high-volume use, load balancing, or using multiple mobile networks.
That depends on the model:
Only the MHD-8100-4G model supports 8 modems/SIMs — great for high-volume use, load balancing, or using multiple mobile networks.
Yes. You can schedule SMS messages from the web interface or via the API. Useful for timed alerts, reminders, or planned communication.
Yes. It runs on your local network, so no data leaves your infrastructure. You can set up HTTPS, restrict access by IP, assign user roles, and control device access with a firewall or VPN.
Yes. SMSEagle supports integration with tools like Zabbix, PRTG, Nagios, LibreNMS, and others. You can also integrate with your own apps using email triggers, the API, SNMP, or webhooks.
