The email-to-text replacement
Turn any email alert into a text message.
The carriers shut down their free email-to-text gateways, and everything that relied on them went quiet. EmailToTxt turns it back on — your device emails a unique address, and we deliver a clean SMS to any phone.
Servers, alarm panels, UPS units, monitoring tools & anything else that can email.
EmailToTxt
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Why texts stopped
The free email-to-text gateways are gone
For years, systems emailed addresses like 5551234567@vtext.com to reach a phone as a text. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile retired those gateways to fight spam — and overnight, alert texts stopped showing up.
If your alerts went silent and nothing on the device changed, this is almost always why. The device is still sending email — there’s just nothing on the other end turning it into a text anymore.
EmailToTxt is that other end. We give each device a real inbound mailbox, clean up the alert, and send it over carrier-grade, fully registered 10DLC messaging — the compliant replacement for the gateways that disappeared.
How it works
Three steps to alert texts
No new hardware, no code, no API. If your device can send an email alert, you’re most of the way there.
Create an endpoint
Point your device’s email alerts at it
Add phone numbers and get texts
Your device sends alerts to an address like
server-room-a1b2c@alerts.emailtotxt.com…and each alert arrives on your phone as a short, readable text.
What people connect
If it can email, it can text
Step-by-step setup guides for the systems that used the old carrier gateways. Don't see yours? The universal parser handles anything that can email an alert.
What you get
Built for alerts you can actually rely on
Clean, readable texts
We parse out what matters and send a short line you can read on a lock screen — not a full email you have to decode.
Works with virtually anything
If your server, panel, monitor, or appliance can email an alert, EmailToTxt can text it. No integrations, no API keys, no code.
Multiple recipients
Forward each endpoint’s alerts to as many phones as you like. Add owners, managers, and on-call staff — each one gets the text.
Built-in abuse controls
Per-endpoint hourly throttles, monthly caps, and duplicate-alert cooldowns keep a misbehaving device from blowing up your phone — or your bill.
Full activity log
Every alert is logged with its status — received, parsed, sent, or blocked — so you can see exactly what went out and when.
Compliant A2P messaging
Delivered over registered 10DLC with STOP/HELP handling — not a gray-market gateway that can disappear overnight.
FAQ
Common questions
- What happened to email-to-text?
- The major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile — shut down their free email-to-SMS gateways (vtext.com, txt.att.net, tmomail.net, and similar) to fight spam. Anything that emailed those addresses silently stopped reaching phones. EmailToTxt restores the workflow over compliant, registered A2P 10DLC messaging.
- What kinds of devices and systems work with it?
- Anything that can send an email alert over SMTP: servers and NAS units, UPS and generator monitors, alarm panels, building controls, monitoring software, printers, dataloggers, medical and refrigeration monitors — if it emails, it can text.
- Is this an open email-to-SMS relay?
- No. Each device gets its own private inbound address tied to your account, and texts go only to phone numbers you add — with recorded consent and STOP/HELP handling. That consent model is what keeps delivery compliant and reliable where the old open gateways failed.
- How are the text messages formatted?
- We read the alert email and extract the subject and key details, then send a short, readable line — not a wall of raw email text. Long alerts are trimmed to fit a single SMS.
- Can I send alerts to more than one phone number?
- Yes. Each endpoint can forward to as many phone numbers as you need — owner, manager, on-call staff. Every recipient can reply STOP to opt out at any time.
- Will it flood my phone with texts?
- No. Each endpoint has an hourly rate limit and each account a monthly cap, plus duplicate-alert cooldowns. A chatty device can’t run up a storm of texts or your bill.
- Do I have to run my own email server?
- No. Your device needs a mailbox to send from (a free Gmail or Outlook account with an app password works fine). EmailToTxt receives that email at your unique address and converts it to a text.
Get your alerts back on your phone
Create an endpoint, point your device at it, add your number. Most setups take about ten minutes.