Email-to-SMS · Two-way · No code
Email to Text
If it can send an email, it can send a text.
TextBolt bridges email and SMS — in either direction. Send a text from your inbox and get replies back as email. Or pipe alerts from any system that already speaks email — server monitoring, alarm panels, IoT sensors, web forms, anything.
Trusted by 3000+ teams across hospitals, county IT, broadcast stations, medical clinics, and software ops.
Pick Your Journey
Two ways teams use TextBolt. Same email-to-SMS plumbing underneath.
Text From Your Inbox
Type a phone number into the To field of any email. Recipient gets an SMS. Their reply lands in your inbox like a normal email thread.
Watch a sales rep nudge a lead from Gmail:
Sarah replies “yes, what’s a 3-line quote vs a 5-line?” — Mike sees it as a normal Gmail reply, threaded.
Built For:
Sales follow-ups & lead nurturing
Recruiters, real estate agents, account managers
Customer support replies
Appointment confirmations & reminders
Anyone who already lives in Gmail or Outlook
Alerts From Any System
If a system can send an email, it can text a phone. No SDK. No code. No integration project. Just point its alert email at a TextBolt address.
Watch a 2 AM server page reach the on-call engineer:
Same shape works for an alarm panel at 2 AM, a voicemail notification, a “high temp” IoT sensor, or a new web-form lead.
Built For:
IT, SRE & DevOps on-call paging
Alarm panels & facility monitoring
Broadcast off-air / equipment alerts
Voicemail-to-SMS for VoIP & PBX
Web forms & landing-page leads
IoT & sensor thresholds
How Email To Text Works
Two journeys. One mechanic. Every TextBolt account gets a unique inbound address — +1XXXXXXXXXX@sendemailtotext.com — that converts any email it receives into an SMS to that number. Replies route back to the original sender’s inbox, threaded.
JOURNEY 1 —
Text From Your Inbox
1. COMPOSE LIKE A NORMAL EMAIL.
Open Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, M365 OWA, or whatever you use today. New message.
2. ADDRESS IT TO THE PHONE.
Put +1XXXXXXXXXX@sendemailtotext.com in the To field (you can save it as a contact for one-tap). Subject + body become the SMS.
3. RECIPIENT GETS A NORMAL SMS.
No app to install. They reply by texting back. Their reply lands in your inbox as a threaded email — searchable, archivable, auditable.
Used by: sales reps, recruiters, real-estate agents, multi-location clinic front desks, treatment-center admissions teams, ABA scheduling coordinators, customer support teams.
JOURNEY 2 —
Alerts From Any System
1. POINT YOUR ALERT EMAIL AT TEXTBOLT.
In your monitoring tool / alarm panel / VoIP / web form / EMR — wherever the alert configuration lives — add +1XXXXXXXXXX@sendemailtotext.com as a recipient. (Or set up a forwarding rule if the system can’t be edited directly.)
2. THE SYSTEM FIRES ITS EXISTING EMAIL ALERT.
No code change. No SDK. No SMTP rewrite. The alert email it was already sending now also goes to a phone.
3. THE ON-CALL PHONE GETS THE SMS.
Subject + body delivered as text. Rotation? Different shift? Just change the destination address — no redeploys.
Used by: county IT, hospital networks, broadcast engineers, security/alarm monitoring, ABA practices, software SREs, charter schools, fleet ops, manufacturing telemetry.
Works With Whatever Already Speaks Email
If your tool can send an email, it works with TextBolt. No connector to install, no integration project, no API contract to maintain. We’ve seen every shape of email pass through — here’s the short version of what customers actually plug into us.
Email clients (where humans type)
Monitoring & observability
Web forms & lead capture
VoIP & voicemail-to-email
Alarm & security panels
Broadcast & studio
Help desk & ticketing
Healthcare, EMR & clinical
IoT & industrial
CRM & sales tools
Field service & ops
Your own apps & scripts
Spark
Superhuman
Mailbird
HEY
ProtonMail
Fastmail
Any IMAP / SMTP client
Don’t see your tool? If it can send an email, it works. That’s the whole compatibility test. → Setup guides for 30+ systems
Email To SMS For Every Use Case
Pick your situation — each landing page walks through setup, pricing, and a real customer example.
For People Who Text From Their Inbox
Send SMS From Gmail
For sales reps, account managers, and support teams who already live in Gmail.
Send SMS From Outlook
Same workflow on Microsoft 365 / Exchange.
Send SMS From Apple Mail
Mac, iPhone, iPad — and headless Mac Mini servers too.
SMS For Customer Support
Handle inbound customer texts as email tickets.
Appointment Reminders
Auto-text reminders from any scheduling tool that can email.
Real Estate Texting
Text leads and clients without giving out your cell.
For Systems That Need To Alert A Phone
Server & IT Monitoring Alerts
Pipe Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, CloudWatch alerts to on-call phones.
Alarm Panel SMS Notifications
DSC, Honeywell, Bosch panels that email alarms.
Voicemail-To-SMS
VoIP and PBX voicemail notifications routed to text.
Off-Air Alerts For Broadcasters
Silence detectors and stream monitors text the engineer.
Web Form To SMS
Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, HubSpot — text leads instantly.
IoT Sensor SMS Alerts
Temperature, humidity, motion, leak sensors that email.
Help Desk & Ticketing Alerts
Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira escalations to phone.
CARRIER GATEWAY MIGRATIONS
Migrating From A Carrier Email-to-SMS Gateway?
The free carrier gateways are gone or going — TextBolt is the drop-in replacement that actually works for business use.
United States
Migrating From @txt.att.net (AT&T)
AT&T retired their email-to-SMS gateway. Move your alerts to TextBolt in under an hour.
Migrating From @vtext.com (Verizon)
Verizon’s vtext.com gateway no longer reliably delivers. Switch to a verified business sender.
Migrating From @tmomail.net (T-Mobile)
T-Mobile shut down tmomail.net for new senders. TextBolt drops in with the same email-to-SMS pattern, business-grade.
Migrating From WIN-911
WIN-911 alerts not reaching phones reliably? Route notifications through TextBolt’s business-grade email-to-SMS delivery.
Canada
Migrating From Rogers (Pcs.Rogers.Com / Txt.Bell.Ca)
Canadian carrier gateways are unreliable for business volumes. TextBolt delivers across all major Canadian carriers.
Migrating From Bell Canada
Bell’s email-to-text gateway has been throttled or retired. Move your monitoring + alerting workflows.
Migrating From Telus
Same email-to-SMS pattern, no carrier gateway dependency.
Migrating From Fido
Carrier-agnostic delivery to any Canadian mobile.
What Changes When You Migrate to TextBolt
One Destination Address Per Recipient
No more “is this customer on AT&T or T-Mobile?” guesswork. The carrier-by-carrier address logic disappears.
Verified Business Sender
A2P 10DLC registered in the US, business-grade routing in Canada — so messages actually arrive instead of getting silently dropped.
Two-Way Text Replies Threaded Back To Email
The carrier gateways were one-way. TextBolt gives you replies back as email, threaded with the original.
No Code Changes, No Integration Project
Your existing alert system keeps sending to an email address. The address is the only thing that changes.
Why Teams Choose TextBolt
No SDK. No Code. No Integration Project.
Most SMS APIs ask you to write code, manage tokens, and run servers. TextBolt asks you to send an email. If your system can email, you’re done.
Your Existing Inbox Is the Dashboard
Every text in. Every text out. Every alert. All threaded in the email tools your team already searches, archives, and audits.
Two-Way That Actually Works
Text Replies route back to the original sender’s inbox not a shared catch-all. Sales reps own their conversations. On-call engineers see their own pages.
US Toll-Free, A2P 10DLC Compliant
Verified business-grade SMS, not a personal number cobbled together. Delivery rates the carriers actually trust.
Pricing That Scales With You
Transparent per-text pricing. No platform fees hiding in the fine print. From a handful of messages to millions, you know what you’ll pay.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
What Customers Say
Real teams who replaced their old paging, alerting, or texting workflow with a TextBolt email address.
On Google Workspace Marketplace, with
273K+ installs
We replaced a five-figure SMS API project with a $29/month TextBolt plan. The alerts started flowing the same afternoon.
IT Director
County Government
Our front desk lives in Gmail. TextBolt let them text patients without learning a new tool. Onboarding was zero.
Practice Manager
Multi-location PT Clinic
Off-air alerts go straight to my phone now. I don’t watch a dashboard at 2am anymore.
Chief Engineer
Broadcast Station
Frequently Asked Questions
What is email-to-text (or email-to-SMS)?
Email-to-text is a service that converts an email into an SMS message delivered to a mobile phone. With TextBolt, any system that can send an email — Gmail, Outlook, monitoring tools, alarm panels, web forms, IoT devices — can send a text without code or APIs.
How do I send a text from Gmail?
Compose a new email in Gmail, address it to +1XXXXXXXXXX@sendemailtotext.com (replacing the X’s with the recipient’s 10-digit US phone number), write your message in the body, and hit send. The recipient gets it as an SMS. Their reply comes back to your Gmail inbox as a normal email.
Do recipients need an app?
No. The recipient gets a regular SMS on their phone. They reply by texting back like they would any other message.
Can I send to multiple phone numbers at once?
Yes. Add multiple +1XXXXXXXXXX@sendemailtotext.com addresses in the To, CC, or BCC field, or use distribution lists. Each recipient gets the SMS independently.
Is it secure for business use?
Yes. TextBolt uses A2P 10DLC-verified sending, which means messages are registered as legitimate business communications. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
What does it cost?
Plans start at $29/month with a free trial that requires credit card to avoid spam. Per-message overage rates apply only after your monthly bucket. See the pricing page for details.
How is this different from a regular SMS API like the big providers?
Traditional SMS APIs require code, an SDK, API keys, server hosting, and ongoing maintenance. TextBolt requires sending an email. If you already have a system that can email — and almost every system can — you can send SMS through it today, without involving a developer.
What systems can send alerts through TextBolt?
Anything that can send email: server monitoring tools (Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, CloudWatch, PRTG), alarm panels (DSC, Honeywell, Bosch), VoIP voicemail (RingCentral, 8×8, Nextiva, Allworx), broadcast monitors, IoT sensors, web forms (Contact Form 7, WPForms, HubSpot), help desks (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira), and more.
Is TextBolt a replacement for txt.att.net, vtext.com, or tmomail.net?
Yes. The legacy AT&T (txt.att.net), Verizon (vtext.com), and T-Mobile (tmomail.net) email-to-SMS gateways have been retired or throttled for business volumes. TextBolt is a drop-in replacement: same email-to-text pattern, but with verified A2P 10DLC business routing, two-way replies, and reliable delivery across all US carriers.
Does TextBolt work with my mobile carrier?
Yes, TextBolt works with all major mobile carriers in the United States and Canada, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Rogers, Bell, Telus, and others
Do I need to switch my carrier to use TextBolt?
No, you can keep your existing mobile carrier. TextBolt is not tied to any specific provider and works independently of your network.
Can I use my own phone number?
TextBolt assigns each account a dedicated US toll-free or 10DLC number for outbound SMS, registered for business use. You can also request number porting for established businesses.
How fast is the delivery?
Average end-to-end time from email-send to SMS-delivered is typically a few seconds. Once we hand the message to the carrier, downstream delivery time depends on the carrier network and the recipient’s phone.
Is TextBolt compatible with prepaid and postpaid plans?
Yes, TextBolt works with both prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, as long as your number can send and receive text messages.
Will TextBolt work if I travel between the U.S. and Canada?
Yes, as long as your mobile number is active and able to receive messages, TextBolt will continue to work across both countries.
Does TextBolt require any special carrier settings?
No special configuration is needed. If your phone can send and receive SMS messages, you can use TextBolt.
Are there any carriers that are not supported?
TextBolt is designed to be carrier-agnostic and supports virtually all standard mobile carriers in the U.S. and Canada.
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