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This guide is to show you how you can use a cloud automation tool to divert SMS received on your Virtual Mobile Numbers to your email. This guide will show how you can use Microsoft Flow to automate the process for you.

You will need to have an account with Microsoft Flow. You can login to Microsoft Flow over at https://flow.microsoft.com

1. Click on My Flows. On the top menu bar select New Flow > Automated cloud flow

2. Under Flow Name, give it a descriptive name like "Receive SMS from @voice" and leave everything blank and click on Skip

3. Type in "Request" in the search field and select Request

   

4. Under the Triggers, select When an HTTP request is received. A URL will automatically be created once you complete the flow.

5. Click on Next Step and type in Mail and select Send an email notification

6. In the To field, enter the email address that you want to send the notification to

7. When you click in the Subject field a pop-up will appear. Select Expression and paste this syntaxand click on OK.

   triggerBody().from
   

8. You can add "New SMS From -" at the front of the Subject field as belowThis will mean the the Subject of the email will appear as "New SMS From - {Sender Number}".

   

9. In the Body, you can pre-type as per below:

   

10. Next, click next to the "To:", and from the pop-up, click on Expression and paste this syntaxand click on OK.

    triggerBody().to
    

11. Click next to the "From:", and from the pop-up, click on Expression and paste this syntaxand click on OK.

    triggerBody().from
    

12. Click next to the "Time:", and from the pop-up, click on Expression and paste this syntaxand click on OK. Please be mindful that the timestamp will show as a GMT 0 timezone.

    triggerBody().timestamp

13. Click next to the "Message:", and from the pop-up, click on Expression and paste this syntaxand click on OK.

    triggerBody().message
    

14. The final result should look something like this

    

15. You can now click on Save

16. Go back to the first trigger and click on When a HTTP request is received and copy the URL provided

    

17. Log in to your @voice portal and head over to Accounts > List All