How to messaging with EmailGateBot

You can be messaging to Telegram channel and groups by sending emails to SPECIAL_CODE@telegram-email.appspotmail.com

For posting to group and supergroup just add the bot as a member. The bot must have the rights to publish messages and media content in this group.

The bot will inform you in private the email address for posting messages to this group.

To post messages to the channel, send the command /helpchannel to the private chat with the bot. The bot will tell you a special code like

/start xxxxxxx

Add EmailGateBot to the desired channel as an administrator, bot must have the rights to publish messages and media content in this channel. Then send the received code to the channel.

The bot will inform you in private the email address for posting messages to this channel.

When you send the first message to the chat from the new mailbox, the bot will ask you for confirmation of receiving emails from this address. To prevent a bot from writing to the chat, delete it from the corresponding channel/group.

The size of the text of the letter published via EmailGateBot should not exceed 100 Kb. The total size of the letter, including files attached to the letter, should not exceed 30 Mb. Messages exceeding these limits are ignored by the bot.

From the text of your email, the bot publishes the first 4 Kb, this is a limit on the size of messages in the Telegram messenger.

Email can contain either the plain text version of the message (text/plain), or the html version of the message (text/html), or both. If the message contains text and html versions of the message, EmailGateBot selects the html version for publication.

The “Select plain or html” menu item when editing an email address in the allowlist get you ability to set the publication of a text version of the message, if the message contains both a text and html version of the message.