PSA - AT&T Email to SMS Gateway Service Ending

provels

Of possible interest, maybe old news...

Hi, it’s AT&T. On 6/17/2025, we’ll stop supporting email-to-text messages. That means you won’t be able to send a text message to an AT&T customer from an email address. You can still get in touch with AT&T customers using SMS (text), MMS, and standard email services. For more info, go to www.att.com/StopEmail2Text

elvisimprsntr

BACKGROUND

ATT announced it is sun setting its email-to-text and text-to-email service on June 17, 2025

I have been using email-to-text as a way to effectively send push notifications from my home security, automation system, and other IoT devices for critical events (alarm, smoke, doorbell, etc.)

ALTERNATIVE

If you are affected and are in need of an alternative, I switched to using Pushover: Simple Notifications for Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop
30-day free trial and $4.99 one time license per platform.

I already updated my security system, home automation controller, and pfSense to use Pushover. Took less than 15 minutes.

I’d be interested in what options others are using.

provels

@elvisimprsntr said in PSA - AT&T Email to SMS Gateway Service Ending:

I’d be interested in what options others are using.

I just use email. Better formatting than txt anyway. Still goes to the phone and free, not that 5 bucks is anything. Hadn't been working very well for a while anyway.
Notifications sent to AT&T via Comcast

elvisimprsntr

@provels said in PSA - AT&T Email to SMS Gateway Service Ending:

I just use email. Better formatting than txt anyway. Still goes to the phone and free.

Thanks. I prefer instant push notifications for critical events.

JKnott

@provels said in PSA - AT&T Email to SMS Gateway Service Ending:

Of possible interest, maybe old news...

Rogers did the same thing a while ago.

marcg

@elvisimprsntr said in PSA - AT&T Email to SMS Gateway Service Ending:

If you are affected and are in need of an alternative, I switched to using Pushover: Simple Notifications for Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop
30-day free trial and $4.99 one time license per platform.

I already updated my security system, home automation controller, and pfSense to use Pushover. Took less than 15 minutes.

I’d be interested in what options others are using.

There was a short discussion of this on the Ubiquiti forums. Pushover received a number of recommendations. Other options mentioned were Zapier and Telegram. Home Assistant apparently has notification support through its app.

I switched over to Google Chat for notifications via a webhook (Chat webhooks require a Google Workspace account, which we already had). Straightforward to implement and working well so far. There's also an email-to-Chat interface.