For system administrators looking to replace AT&T’s discontinued email-to-text gateway, EmailToVoice.Net provides an immediate, compatible replacement with enhanced capabilities for your critical notification infrastructure.

Replacing AT&T’s Email-to-Text with EmailToVoice.Net

If you’re managing systems that depend on AT&T’s email-to-text service for alerts or notifications, you need a migration plan now. AT&T is terminating its email-to-text and text-to-email services on June 17, 2025, requiring immediate action for any operational systems utilizing the @txt.att.net or @mms.att.net gateways.

Technical Impact of AT&T’s Discontinuation

After June 17, 2025, these endpoints will stop functioning:

• phonenumber@txt.att.net (SMS gateway)
• phonenumber@mms.att.net (MMS gateway)
• Any inbound text-to-email functionality

If your monitoring systems, alert infrastructure, or automated workflows depend on these gateways, they will fail without appropriate reconfiguration.

EmailToVoice.Net: Drop-in Replacement with Enhanced Functionality

EmailToVoice.Net provides a technically superior alternative with minimal reconfiguration required. The service maintains the email-based interface your systems already use, while adding capabilities that address common technical limitations.

Technical Advantages:

1. Protocol Flexibility – EmailToVoice.Net handles:
   • Standard SMS messages
   • Text-to-speech voice calls (TTS)
   • HTML content delivery via secure SMS links
   • Two-way messaging provides the possibility of Agentic responses
2. Security Implementation – Full TLS encryption between your systems and our messaging platform, with optional challenge-response authentication for message recipients.
3. Administrative Controls – Account Settings control message delivery windows, opt-out management, distribution lists, and detailed real-time delivery logging.
4. Integration Compatibility – Works with:
   • Nagios, viewLinc by Vaisala, and other monitoring platforms
   • Legacy and modern ERP/CRM systems
   • Industrial control systems and SCADA
   • IoT/M2M hardware
   • Any system capable of SMTP output
5. Logging & Troubleshooting – Real-time message tracking and detailed delivery status for system administrators.
6. Customer Portal – create escalation lists for voice calls, delivery windows, message parsing, and much more

Implementation Guide

Converting your systems from AT&T’s email-to-text gateway to EmailToVoice.Net requires minimal changes to existing configurations:

Basic Configuration:

• Initial Setup:
  • Register for EmailToVoice.Net (free trial available)
  • Provide your sending email domain or specific email addresses. (Recipient phone numbers do not need to be preregistered)
• SMS Configuration:
  • Replace: phonenumber@txt.att.net
  • With: phonenumber@sms.message-service.org
  • Example: 5555555555@sms.message-service.org
  • Maintain your existing email body format
• Voice Call Configuration (New Capability):
  • Use: phonenumber@tts.message-service.org
  • Example: 5555555555@tts.message-service.org
  • Email body becomes spoken message content

• Rich Communication SMS 

• • Use: phonenumber@linknsms.message-service.org
  • Example: 5555555555@linknsms.message-service.org
  • Email body becomes a hosted web page with the URL embedded in the SMS

Advanced Implementations:

• Lists – Use predefined distribution lists
• Managed Delivery – Set time windows for message transmission
• Custom Response Handling – Configure message reply destinations to Agentic workflow processing
• Parsing Content – Specify message start/end points for translating only relevant alert data

Technical Use Cases

EmailToVoice.Net has been implemented in critical infrastructure environments, including:

• Server/network monitoring alert escalation
• Industrial control system notifications
• API failure notifications for DevOps teams
• On-call rotation management
• Critical infrastructure status alerting
• AI Agentic workflow communications

Migration Timeline Recommendation

Given the June 17, 2025 cutoff, a phased implementation approach is advised:

1. Immediate: Register and test the EmailToVoice.Net platform with sample alerts
2. 30-60 days pre-cutoff: Switch primary alert routing to EmailToVoice.Net
3. Post-migration: Utilize enhanced capabilities like voice calls and Rich Content password-protected SMS messages for critical alerts

Transitioning to EmailToVoice.Net now ensures system continuity while providing significant technical improvements over the legacy AT&T gateway service.

Visit EmailToVoice.net for documentation, integration examples, and implementation support.

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