AT&T pulls the plug on an old-school texting feature you probably didn’t even know you had

AT&T is quietly retiring a couple of its long-standing, if under-the-radar, features. The carrier has announced that its email-to-text and text-to-email services will be shut down starting June 17, 2025, and not everyone is sad to see them go.

In case you’ve never used them, these services allow you to send and receive text messages via email. All you had to do was type in a phone number followed by @txt.att.net or @mms.att.net, and your message would be delivered as an SMS or MMS to an AT&T user. Similarly, users could receive incoming texts as emails. It was a straightforward system that served as a handy bridge between text messaging and email, especially before the rise of modern messaging apps.