AT&T email-text gateway shutting down

[antenna]

If you are an AT&T customer in the US, you are about to lose the ability to send text messages from an email account and vice versa.  If you haven't used that feature, I encourage you to use it in hopes they keep it active.  [10 digit phone number]@mms.att.net in the recipient line will send the email contents to a phone as a text and texting an email address does the reverse.  This is a useful feature and I hope they don't shut it down.

https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254/

[IanB]

Seems like it is too easy to be abused by spammers. If it means I get fewer spam texts, that will be good.

[antenna]

I have never received a text from an email account outside of the ones I sent from my computer.  Yes, I agree, it could be used for that, but no more so than a bot/scammer behind a phone number.