Last checked: 11 September 2026. This list is revised when a carrier publishes a notice.
Email2Phone delivers email as a phone call, not as a text. This page is about the carrier email-to-SMS gateways: the free addresses such as number@vtext.com that turned an email into a text message, which carriers have closed them, which still answer, and what to do about the alerts that depended on one.
Two of the three national US carrier gateways are gone or going: AT&T's shut down on 17 June 2025, Verizon's closes by 31 March 2027, and T-Mobile has never said either way. Many lists still online show all three as working. This one lists only what each carrier has published, with the source and the date it was checked; where a carrier has said nothing, it says so.
What an email to SMS gateway is, and why they are closing
An email to SMS gateway is an address at a mobile carrier that turns an email into a text message. Send a message to 2125551234@vtext.com and it arrived on that Verizon phone as an SMS. The major US carriers each ran one, they were free, and they needed no account or contract, which is why monitoring tools, alarm panels, NAS boxes and UPS cards all learned to page people that way.
The carriers have said little about why they are closing. Verizon's notice mentions SMS spam filtering as a reason messages may already fail; AT&T's gives no reason at all; T-Mobile has published nothing. What is certain is the direction. Nothing replaces a carrier gateway like for like, and what you can do about an alert that depended on one comes down to what that alert needs to reach, which is the last section of this page.
The list
| Carrier | Email-to-text address | Status | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | number@txt.att.net (SMS), number@mms.att.net (MMS) |
Shut down 17 June 2025. AT&T's support article states that from that date email can no longer be used to send or receive texts on AT&T Wireless, in both directions. | AT&T support | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Verizon | number@vtext.com (SMS), number@vzwpix.com (MMS) |
Shutting down; complete by 31 March 2027. Verizon's notice says some senders may lose access before that date, and that messages may already fail because of SMS spam filtering or because the recipient turned the feature off. Business customers are pointed at Verizon's paid Enterprise Messaging (EMAG). | Verizon support notice | 10 Sep 2026 |
| T-Mobile | number@tmomail.net |
No published shutdown notice. T-Mobile's support pages still describe the address as a delivery path. Separately, and not from any carrier page: administrators have widely reported that mail sent to it stopped arriving in late 2024. Test before depending on it. | T-Mobile support | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Google Fi | number@msg.fi.google.com |
Carrier-documented; no shutdown notice found. Google Fi's help page describes the address and an 8 MB attachment limit and carries no notice of discontinuation. Not tested by this page. | Google Fi help | 10 Sep 2026 |
Prepaid brands and MVNOs. Cricket, Metro by T-Mobile, Boost, Mint, Visible, Xfinity Mobile, UScellular and Consumer Cellular had published no statement either way about their email-to-text addresses as of 10 September 2026, and this page does not guess. If you depend on one, test it (below) and keep testing.
The former Sprint address, number@messaging.sprintpcs.com, has belonged to T-Mobile since the merger. T-Mobile has published nothing about it either, so this page lists no status for it.
Which carriers have shut down email to text?
AT&T, on 17 June 2025, and Verizon, by 31 March 2027 with some senders losing access earlier. T-Mobile has published nothing; reports from administrators, not from T-Mobile, say its gateway stopped delivering in late 2024. Google Fi still documents its gateway. No other US carrier has published a notice either way.
Is T-Mobile email to text discontinued?
Not officially. T-Mobile's support pages still describe number@tmomail.net, and the company has published no shutdown notice. Administrators, not the carrier, have reported since late 2024 that messages sent there do not arrive. The status this page can defend is "no published notice; test before relying on it", and an alert path you have to keep testing is not one to build on.
How do I test if an email to text gateway still works?
Send a test from the system that will actually use it, not from your own mailbox, and watch for the text on a phone you are holding. Four checks, in order:
- Send from the device or tool itself. A monitoring tool, NAS or UPS card sends through its own configured mail path; a test from your desktop proves nothing about that path.
- Do not wait for a bounce. Carrier gateways rarely bounce. A message that never arrives usually produces no error anywhere, so the absence of a bounce is not a pass.
- Check the sending log. Postfix or Exim logs, an Exchange message trace, or the tool's own notification log will show the message as sent. Sent and not received means that route failed; it does not say why. Verizon's own notice lists spam filtering and a recipient's settings as other reasons a message can vanish, so a failed test is a reason to stop depending on the gateway, not proof it has closed.
- Repeat it. Verizon's notice says senders may lose access before the final date, and reports on T-Mobile describe delivery stopping without warning. A gateway that passed in June can fail in July. Put the test on a calendar.
What replaces a carrier email to SMS gateway?
There is no free like-for-like replacement. The options are a paid SMS provider (a new address or an API, with A2P 10DLC registration for US traffic), an incident platform such as PagerDuty, a push notification app, or a service that turns the email into a phone call. The two carrier pages compare those options in detail: what to use now that AT&T email to text has shut down and what breaks when Verizon email to text shuts down.
For the alerts that have to reach a person, one route does not depend on any gateway staying open: send the email to an Email2Phone address and route the alert to a phone call instead. The phone rings and a voice reads the message; it works on a landline, needs no app, and a burst of alerts is one call rather than one per message. Email2Phone places voice calls only. It does not send SMS, so it is a replacement for the alert, not for texting. If what you actually wanted was to send an email to a phone number, that is a question with its own answer.
Sources
- AT&T, "Say goodbye to email-to-text and text-to-email", att.com. Accessed 10 September 2026.
- Verizon, "Notice to Customers: Shutdown of email to Vtext and VZWPix", verizon.com. Accessed 10 September 2026.
- T-Mobile, "Help with scams & spam", t-mobile.com. Accessed 9 September 2026. Still describes tmomail.net delivery; no shutdown notice found on t-mobile.com.
- Google, "Send and receive emails over text message", Google Fi Wireless Help. Accessed 10 September 2026.