How to Automatically Receive Email Body Content as SMS Using Pabbly Connect

Learn how to integrate Gmail with Twilio using Pabbly Connect to automatically receive email body content as SMS. Step-by-step tutorial included. Discover hidden automation capabilities within your existing tools. This guide shows you how to connect your essential applications and permanently eliminate redundant manual processes.

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1. Accessing Pabbly Connect for Integration

To start the integration process, access Pabbly Connect by signing into your account. If you’re a new user, you can sign up for free and receive 100 tasks every month.

After logging in, navigate to the Pabbly Connect dashboard. Click on the ‘Create Workflow’ button located in the top right corner to initiate the setup for receiving email content as SMS.

2. Creating a Workflow in Pabbly Connect

In this step, you will create a new workflow in Pabbly Connect. Name your workflow as ‘Receive Body Content of an Email as SMS Automatically’. Select the folder where you want to save this workflow.

• Name the workflow appropriately.
• Choose the correct folder for organization.

Once you’ve named your workflow and selected the folder, click on ‘Create’. You will be directed to a page where you can set up the trigger and action for your workflow.

3. Setting Up Trigger and Action in Pabbly Connect

The next step involves defining the trigger and action in Pabbly Connect. For this integration, select ‘Email Parser’ as your trigger application. This will allow you to fetch emails from your Gmail account.

After selecting the trigger, proceed to choose ‘Twilio’ as your action application. The action event will be set to ‘Send SMS’. This configuration ensures that whenever you receive a new email, the content will be sent as an SMS.

• Select Email Parser for email fetching.
• Choose Twilio for sending SMS.
• Set action to Send SMS.

With the trigger and action set, you can now move forward to configure the email parser in your Gmail account.

4. Configuring Gmail for Email Parsing

To enable email parsing, go to your Gmail account settings. Under the ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP’ tab, add the forwarding address provided by Pabbly Connect. This address will capture emails sent to your Gmail account.

After adding the forwarding address, confirm it via the link sent to your Pabbly Connect email hook. Once confirmed, select the option to forward incoming emails to this address and save your changes.

Access Gmail settings. Add the forwarding address from Pabbly Connect. Confirm the forwarding address.

Now, whenever you receive a new email, it will be forwarded to Pabbly Connect for processing.

5. Sending SMS with Twilio through Pabbly Connect

Once your Gmail is set up, return to Pabbly Connect to establish a connection with Twilio. Enter your Twilio Account SID and Authorization Token to create this link. This allows Pabbly Connect to send SMS messages on your behalf.

Next, map the body of the received email to the SMS body field in Pabbly Connect. This ensures that the SMS will contain the actual content of the email. Finally, input the recipient’s phone number to whom the SMS should be sent.

Enter Twilio Account SID and Token. Map the email body to the SMS body field. Specify the recipient’s phone number.

With everything set, click on ‘Save’ to test the connection. You will see that the SMS has been successfully sent with the email content.

Conclusion

This tutorial demonstrated how to use Pabbly Connect to receive body content of an email as SMS automatically. By integrating Gmail and Twilio, you can streamline communication with your team effectively.