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Forward emails to Slack
Forward any email straight to a Slack channel in seconds, without leaving your inbox. It works with every email provider, and there is nothing to install or set up.
Dan Whitfield
Fwd: Site access confirmed for Monday
Your instructions
Post this in #ops so the team can plan around it.
Slack
Post the site access update
#ops
From Ashford Roofing: site access is confirmed for Monday from 8am. Full details in the forwarded email.
Sent after approval
You receive a confirmation email once complete.
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How it works
Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "post this in #ops".
ForwardThis writes a short message from the email for the channel in your instructions, or for a person if it should go to them directly.
You approve the message before it is sent: ForwardThis shows you the exact words first, because a message the team has seen cannot be unsent, then replies to confirm once it has posted.
What is ForwardThis?
ForwardThis is an AI email assistant that turns email into action in 144+ of the apps you use every day.
Works with any email
Compatible with any personal or professional email provider. Gmail, Outlook and more.
144+ apps
Works across the apps you already use, with more added every month.
Setup in seconds
Nothing to install and no workflows to build. Sign up, forward an email, and it runs.
Secure & private
ForwardThis only acts on the emails you send it, and the email is deleted within 24 hours of the work being done.
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FAQs
- How do I forward an email to Slack?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "post this in #support". ForwardThis shows you the message it is about to post, sends it once you say yes, and replies to confirm. The first time, you will need a free ForwardThis account with Slack connected. It takes about 30 seconds.
- Can I send an email to a Slack channel?
- Yes. Name the channel in your instructions and that is where it goes. One address works for every channel you can post to, public or private.
- Doesn't Slack already have an email address for each channel?
- On paid plans, yes. Slack can give a channel its own email address, and anything sent there appears in that one channel as a raw forwarded email. ForwardThis uses one address for every channel, posts a clean message to the right channel, and shows you the words before they go out.
- Will anything be posted without me seeing it?
- No. Every message is shown to you for a quick OK first.
- Can it send a direct message instead of posting to a channel?
- Yes. Name the person in your instructions and ForwardThis sends the message to them directly. You approve it first, the same as a channel post.
- Can it post the message later?
- Yes. Say when in your instructions, like "post this in #general tomorrow at 9", and the message is scheduled. A scheduled message can still be cancelled any time before it sends.
- Does it work with Outlook and other email apps?
- Yes. ForwardThis works with any email provider: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and everything else. If it can forward an email, it works.
- What happens to my email afterwards?
- It gets deleted. ForwardThis holds your email briefly, then removes it completely. Nothing is stored long term.