Text.email is a service that converts emails into SMS text messages instantly, serving as a modern replacement for the email-to-SMS gateways that mobile carriers have shut down. It enables users to receive critical alerts and notifications on their phones through SMS without requiring any technical integration.

The service works with any application that can send email, making it compatible with existing systems without modification. It includes built-in compliance features such as A2P 10DLC compliance and STOP/HELP handling to ensure messages meet carrier requirements. The platform provides delivery tracking, per-message logging, and multi-carrier SMS routing for reliable message delivery.

To use text.email, users sign up with their email address, choose a plan, and select a private keyword. Only emails sent to addresses formatted as [email protected] are delivered and billed to the account. The system is designed for one-way notifications rather than two-way communication.

The primary benefit is receiving critical alerts instantly on mobile devices when email notifications might be missed. Use cases include server and uptime alerts, security notifications, backup failures, application errors, cron job failures, on-call paging, sensor monitoring, IoT device alerts, and any situation where email notifications indicate something has gone wrong.

Text.email targets users who need reliable notification systems for critical alerts, particularly those who previously relied on carrier email-to-SMS gateways. It's built by the team behind GMass, an email platform trusted by over 400,000 users worldwide, and includes 24/7 monitoring and deliverability retries for maximum reliability.