How to send Email to Slack Channel ?

Ganesh Chandrasekaran
2 min readFeb 5, 2019

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Slack is a very good tool for communication whether its within a small group inside office or people across the globe. There are some great features like

  • Maintains History of conversation.
  • Setup Public / Private channels.
  • Read and Post via Web / Client or Mobile Apps.
  • Post message via scripts, web hooks and email.

How to post message to Slack via Email ?

Step 1 : Sign In and Add this App to your workspace.

https://slack.com/apps/A0F81496D-email

Step 2 : Select an existing Channel from drop down or create a new channel.

Step 3 : Slack will generate a new email (hard to guess email) based on your channel.

Step 4 : Then you can change default values for Customize Name, Customize Icon or leave it as is and click Save Integration.

Note: Keep the email safe, (based on your Slack setting) as anyone who has the email can spam your channel.

Happy Slacking…

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Written by Ganesh Chandrasekaran

Big Data Solution Architect | Adjunct Professor. Thoughts and opinions are my own and don’t represent the companies I work for.

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