AT&T to shut down email-SMS gateway


Way back in 2020, I shared how you can utilize various cellular provider gateways to send an email to a certain address and have it land as a text message on a mobile device.

Today, it looks like AT&T is getting out of that business, having announced that they're shutting down their text-to-email gateway system as of June, 2025.

Find more information on the shutdown here from DigitalTrends, and from AT&T.

I'm guessing that for anybody sending significant amounts of email, this shutdown is a bit of a non-issue. Gateways such as these often have significant volume restrictions and work poorly as substitutes for sending SMS messages directly via an SMS messaging platform like Twilio.
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