Sending SMS notifications via email

2024-08-30

Wanna send SMS notifications for free?

Most phone carriers (in US) allow email to text, so you can send notifications to a desginated email and it will be forwarded to text. Voila!

Here are the email "proxies" for SMS.

T-Mobile – number@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile – number@vmobl.com
AT&T – number@txt.att.net
Sprint – number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon – number@vtext.com
Tracfone – number@mmst5.tracfone.com
Ting – number@message.ting.com
Boost Mobile – number@myboostmobile.com
U.S. Cellular – number@email.uscc.net
Metro PCS – number@mymetropcs.com

Follow up on Sep 7 2024:

Having been using tmobile proxy email [email protected] for a few days, I am pretty disappointed that it was so bad. I didn't even send that many notifications, just a few a days but notifications can either fail or delay by 1+ days. Totally unusable, maybe I'll revisit later.