How to Forward Email to Telegram — Email to Telegram Bot
Telegram is a very convenient, lightweight messenger.
I spend a lot of time in Telegram chats with friends and fellow Ingress players, and I hardly ever open email on my phone.
So I thought: for quick alerts, emails should be forwarded to Telegram.
For example, when a website goes down, a monitoring service sends an SMS — but by the time it arrives the problem may already be gone, and many services charge for SMS alerts anyway. SMS is so last century.
I looked around, and the simplest way to get email in Telegram is a bot.
There are ready-made bots — I found Email to Telegram Bot and started using it.
How it works
- Add the bot in Telegram and send it
/start. - The bot gives you a unique email address.
- Any email sent to that address arrives in your Telegram chat.
- To get selected emails from your own mailbox, set up a forwarding rule in your mail service to the bot’s address.
One catch: test emails I sent straight from my server didn’t arrive, while forwarded ones from my mailbox did — the bot probably runs extra checks on incoming mail.
Privacy note: everything you forward goes through a third-party bot, so don’t forward anything sensitive. For full control you can create your own bot via @BotFather.