Knowledge Base: E-Mail Gateway

  • E-mailing notifications to your devices

    Pushover includes an e-mail gateway feature that allows you to send e-mails to a custom Pushover e-mail address and have them be converted into Pushover notifications. Every user has a unique @pomail.net address assigned when their account is created, and additional addresses can be created with custom options.

    You can find your default Pushover e-mail address on your dashboard, as well as create additional ones or delete aliases at any time.

    E-Mail Alias Settings

    Each e-mail alias can have its own settings such as a unique sound, priority level, and delivery options.

    SMTP Server

    Please note that while Pushover provides

  • Times shown on notifications from the E-Mail Gateway are incorrect

    When Pushover's e-mail gateways receive an e-mail, there is already a date and time included in its headers which is put there by the sender when the e-mail was created. Since each e-mail may be received out of order, or may be delayed before reaching our e-mail gateway, we preserve this date and time and use it as the timestamp on the notification so that they are ordered in your Pushover application in the same order that they were created, rather than the order that we received them.

    While most of the time this feature works well, some systems may