New Email to SMS Service -- Just Launched January 2026!
Send email. Receive text.
Turn emails into real-time SMS alerts.
No account required for the live demo. U.S. & Canada only.
Fast SMS notifications for alerts, not marketing.
- Device monitoring
- Server & uptime alerts
- Security notifications
- Backup failures
- On-call paging
- Community meeting notices
Live email to SMS demo
Live Email to SMS Demo
Send an email to:
your-number@text.email
(example: 2125551212@text.email)
You’ll receive the text in seconds. Free testing is limited to prevent abuse.
Important
This service only allows alerts / notifications.
If your email contains marketing or promotional language,
it will bounce.
OK:
“Test 123”, “Server down”, “Login from new device”, “Backup failed”.
Not OK:
“Limited time offer”, “Buy now”, “20% off”.
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Get your own subdomain so your email to SMS alerts don’t appear on the homepage.
Features
Powerful email-to-SMS features, built right in
text.email does more than forward an email to a phone. It helps you route, schedule, protect, clean up, and respond to the SMS alerts your team depends on.
Distribution Lists
Send one email to a list address and have text.email fan it out as SMS alerts to multiple people.
Perfect for teams, on-call groups, and shared notification workflows.
Learn about Distribution Lists
Scheduled Routing
Route SMS alerts based on each team member’s schedule. Perfect for on-call rotations,
after-hours coverage, weekend support, and teams spread across different time zones.
Learn about Scheduled Routing
Encryption
Encrypt stored SMS report content so sensitive messages in your text.email history stay private.
Your passphrase and keys stay in your browser, and text.email stores only encrypted message data.
Learn about SMS encryption
Reply Handling
When someone replies to an SMS, text.email can capture that reply and route it back so conversations
do not disappear into a black hole.
Learn about reply handling
Convert messy emails into the perfect text
Strip out noise, signatures, disclaimers, and messy email formatting so the SMS message is clean,
readable, and focused on what matters.
Learn about SMS formatting
Email attachments
Turn email attachments into short text.email links inside your SMS alerts. Perfect for voicemail audio files,
PDFs, reports, screenshots, logs, and other files attached to automated emails.
Learn about attachment handling
Real-world ways people use text.email
Built for alerts, not marketing. Here are a few ways teams and individuals turn email into instant SMS notifications.
Industrial maintenance
Pump and equipment failure alerts go straight to on-call staff.
Utility operations
Infrastructure alarms are sent when sensors report abnormal conditions.
Security teams
Door-forced-open and intrusion alerts reach mobile phones immediately.
Healthcare clinics
Urgent staff notices and on-call updates are delivered by SMS.
Flight operations
Status changes and operational alerts reach the right people.
Water utilities
Pump, tank, and environmental alerts are sent when conditions change.
IT teams
Host, server, and service-health alerts help keep systems online.
Market monitoring
Signal alerts are sent when price or indicator conditions are met.
Small businesses
New lead notifications are forwarded so sales staff can respond faster.
Community groups
Meeting reminders and schedule changes are sent directly to members.
Backups, jobs, and app errors
Backup failures, cron job problems, and application errors trigger SMS alerts.
Email forwarding workflows
Important emails can be forwarded into text.email when they need SMS-level visibility.
Home automation
Smart home alerts, sensor notifications, and automation events are sent by SMS.
Gaming alerts
Server status, raid reminders, match updates, and community alerts reach players quickly.
Why text.email exists
For years, the “easy” way to send a text from an alerting system was to email your phone through a carrier gateway: number@carrier-domain. That era of email-to-SMS is over.
The old carrier email-to-text gateways
AT&T
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Shut down (June 17, 2025)
5551234567@txt.att.net
Verizon
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Heavily restricted / often blocked
5551234567@vtext.com
T-Mobile
—
Unreliable / filtering issues
5551234567@tmomail.net
These free gateways became spam magnets, so carriers shut them down or locked them down.
Your alerts shouldn’t depend on a legacy loophole.
text.email is the modern email to SMS replacement:
send an email → receive a real SMS alert in seconds.
Don't miss critical alerts
SMS is harder to miss than email.
Works with any app
If it can send an email, it can trigger a text.
No APIs or code
Set up in minutes, not days.
Compliance built-in
STOP/HELP handling + carrier rules.
General FAQ
Want more questions/answers? Click here for the
Technical FAQ.
Email to SMS is a way to convert a standard email into a text message delivered to your phone.
You send an email to a designated address and it arrives as an SMS — no apps, APIs, or code changes required.
The cell phone carriers used to offer this service (vtext.com, txt.att.net, tmomail.net), but they've all been shut down or deprecated.
text.email is the modern, drop-in replacement.
This service turns emails into SMS messages. It makes it easy to send an email, and then have an SMS sent to your mobile phone.
You can test text.email for free, but ongoing use requires a paid plan.
Free testing is limited to prevent abuse and to make sure the service is used for legitimate alerts and notifications.
You can see available plans on our Pricing page.
text.email is designed for alerts and notifications, not person-to-person texting or casual conversations.
It works best when an app, device, server, monitoring system, or email rule needs to send an important SMS alert.
It should not be used for marketing, promotional messages, spam, or bulk texting.
Right now, we can only send SMS messages to U.S. and Canadian numbers. But we’ll be supporting other countries soon.
Because getting your app, device, or software to send emails is easy but getting it to send an SMS is hard.
Sending an SMS directly involves registering for a number, complying with regulatory agencies, and figuring out how to call an SMS API.
Because in 2025, the major U.S. mobile providers shut these services down.
Text.email is a replacement for AT&T’s txt.att.net,
a replacement for T-Mobile’s tmomail.net, and a replacement for Verizon’s vtext.com.
Sending to your-number@text.email is just for fast, anonymous testing. If you create an account, you’re assigned a subdomain like “zebra”.
(You can also edit your subdomain.) So you should then send emails to
your-number@zebra.text.email.
That way, all of those messages will be tied to your account. Keep your subdomain private.
If you send to your-number@text.email, those messages will not be tied to your account
and your tests will show on our homepage.
Each SMS we send counts as 1 message. So if one email generates 3 text messages by sending to 3 @your-subdomain.text.email addresses, that counts as 3 messages.
Yes, you can control which elements of the email (subject/body/from) are used in the actual SMS sent. It’s in your account’s settings.
The SMS messages will be sent from a variety of different phone numbers, based on how we decide to route your specific SMS message.
Sometimes it will be an 800 number, and sometimes it will be what’s known as a 10DLC (10 digit long code).
For provisioned accounts whose SMS messages originate from our 888 number, replies are captured and routed back through text.email. Reply handling is not available for anonymous test messages or for messages sent through non-reply-enabled routing.
No, we only support basic SMS messages.
No, we only support basic SMS messages.
How Email to SMS Works with text.email
From account creation to your first alert in 1 minute or less.
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Start sending alerts
Choose a subdomain and send emails to trigger texts.
Only emails sent to your-number@your-subdomain.text.email
are delivered and credited to your account.