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AT&T email to text: txt.att.net stopped on 17 June 2025

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AT&T shut down its email-to-text addresses, 10-digit number @txt.att.net and @mms.att.net, on 17 June 2025, for all customers. Email sent to them no longer arrives as a text. What AT&T offers instead is a paid product for its own business lines.[1][2]

AT&T email-to-text today

Shut down

Shut down on 17 June 2025, for all customers.[1][2]

Text (SMS) address
5551234567@txt.att.net
MMS address
5551234567@mms.att.net

5551234567 stands for the 10-digit mobile number, without spaces or dashes.

What changed and when

  1. AT&T starts telling senders directly that its Email Messaging Gateway will close. Trade press reports the news the same day.[2][3]

  2. AT&T starts sending an automatic reply to email sent to its text addresses, announcing the end date.[2]

  3. The service ends. AT&T: “On June 17, 2025, our email-to-text and text-to-email service was shut down.” AT&T said it might give some senders an extension of no more than 60 days.[1][2]

  • The closure covered @txt.att.net and @mms.att.net, and the FirstNet addresses @txt.firstnet-mail.com and @mms.firstnet-mail.com. AT&T's answer to whether the gateway can still be used: “Unfortunately, no. The service will end for all customers.”[2]
  • Trade press reported that Cricket Wireless, which AT&T owns, lost its email-to-text addresses at the same time.[3]
  • Reports on Reddit that AT&T “brought it back” refer to Business Messaging Lite, a paid product for AT&T business lines that AT&T announced alongside the shutdown. The general addresses did not come back.[5][2]

Why texts go missing

  • Since the shutdown, mail to these addresses cannot be delivered: txt.att.net no longer lists a mail server at all.[4]
  • Some users reported AT&T email-to-text failing months before the official end, for example a home-automation user whose alerts stopped in September 2024.[7]
  • Services built on the gateway had to change too. On Surety's support forum, customers describe Alarm.com no longer texting most alerts to AT&T phones.[6]

What to use instead

The alert is only for you

A push-notification app is often enough, and cheaper. Many alarms, cameras and NAS boxes have their own app, and general push apps such as Pushover give you an email address that turns into a notification on your phone. The catch: everyone who should get the alert has to install the app and keep its notifications on.

You can write code and do paperwork

Send through an SMS API such as Twilio. In the US you first have to register a sender with the carriers (10DLC or toll-free verification), which asks for business details and can be refused. Then you build and look after the email-to-text bridge yourself.

AT&T's own replacement

For businesses, AT&T named Business Messaging Lite, an email-to-text option at $0.10 a month per licence. It works only for AT&T lines, and every recipient needs a licence. That page has since been taken down, so the current price is not confirmed.[2]

Real texts to people who will not install an app

That is what Email2Text is for. Your device emails its alert to your private Email2Text address, and it arrives as a real text on the phones you have added and activated with a verification code. A partner, a parent or a colleague on a basic phone gets it like any other text. No carrier paperwork for you. From $5 a month.

Switching a device over

  1. Sign up and add the phone number that should get the alerts. It gets a verification text with a code; enter the code in your account to activate it.
  2. In the device's alert email settings, replace the carrier address (5551234567@txt.att.net) with your private Email2Text address.
  3. Send a test alert from the device.

Texts go only to numbers activated on your account, never to lists of people. Read exactly what we send.

Get started

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Questions

Does AT&T email to text still work?

No. AT&T says: “Effective June 17, 2025, you can no longer send or receive texts using email.” This applies to @txt.att.net and @mms.att.net.[1][2]

Did AT&T bring email to text back?

Not for everyone. AT&T offered Business Messaging Lite, a paid email-to-text option only for AT&T business lines where every recipient has a licence. The old addresses stayed closed.[2]

Why did AT&T stop email to text?

AT&T said the gateway “has become outdated and contributes to a high volume of unwanted text messages.”[2]

Does this affect Cricket?

Trade press reported that Cricket's email-to-text addresses closed along with AT&T's. Cricket has not published its own notice that we could find.[3]

Other carriers

The list of email to text gateways has every carrier's address and status in one table. Pages for the others: Verizon email to text, T-Mobile email to text.

Sources

  1. Say goodbye to email-to-text and text-to-email — AT&T. Carrier. Read 12 November 2026.
  2. Email Messaging Gateway Discontinuance (AT&T Business), copy of 5 July 2025 — Internet Archive. Archived copy. Read 12 November 2026.
  3. AT&T pulls the plug on an old-school texting feature you probably didn't even know you had — Android Authority. Press. Read 12 November 2026.
  4. Mail servers for txt.att.net (none listed) — Google Public DNS. Public lookup. Read 12 November 2026.
  5. tmomail.net email-to-text-mesage service shut down today. — r/tmobile. User reports. Read 12 November 2026.
  6. AT&T Text Messaging Notification Support Sunset — Surety support forum. User reports. Read 12 November 2026.
  7. Email to text no longer working on ATT — Universal Devices forum. User reports. Read 12 November 2026.