New -- Just launched January 2026!
Any email can be a text message.
Turn emails into real-time SMS alerts — no APIs, no integrations, no code.
No signup required for testing. U.S. & Canada only.
Fast, one-way notifications
Designed for alerts, not marketing.
- Device monitoring
- Server & uptime alerts
- Security notifications
- Backup failures
- On-call paging
Live demo
Live 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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Like what you see?
Get your own account.
Get your own subdomain so your alerts don’t appear on the homepage.
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 is over.
The old carrier email-to-text gateways
AT&T
—
Shut down (June 17, 2025)
5551234567@txt.att.net
Verizon
—
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 replacement:
send an email → receive a real SMS alert in seconds.
Never miss a critical alert
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
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Technical FAQ.
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.
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.
Right now, we can only send SMS messages to U.S. and Canadian numbers. But we’ll be supporting other countries soon.
Once you’ve created your 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 you’ll be throttled and your data will end up on our homepage.
This service is for one-way alerts and notifications only. Replies to the SMS messages are discarded and never seen.
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).
No, we only support basic SMS messages.
No, we only support basic SMS messages.
What text.email is for (and what it’s not for)
Built for alerts, not marketing. Not a mass-texting platform. Just fast, reliable, one-way notifications.
Server and uptime alerts
Security and access notifications
Backup failures
Application errors
Cron job failures
On-call paging
Sensors, monitors, and IoT devices
Critical warnings
Important email notices
How It Works
From signup to your first alert in 1 minute (or less)
- Sign up with your email address
- Pick your plan
- Choose a subdomain and start sending alerts
Only emails sent to your-number@your-subdomain.text.email
are delivered and credited to your account.
Reliability and Compliance
Text.email is built by the team at GMass, the email platform trusted by 400k+ users worldwide
Multi-carrier SMS routing
Deliverability retries
Per-message logging
24/7 monitoring
A2P 10DLC compliance + STOP/HELP
Message privacy by default