Get a Phone Call When a Critical Email Arrives
Email2Phone turns the emails that matter — server alerts, alarm notifications, temperature warnings, urgent client messages — into a phone call that reads the message aloud. It works with any system that can send email. No app to install, no API to integrate, set up in five minutes.
Calls any phone, in any country, and can send the alert as a text too. Plans from $10/month.
Three steps from email to ringing phone
1. Send email to your address
Every account gets yourname@email2phone.net. Add it as a notification contact in
your monitoring tool, alarm panel or sensor portal — or forward from Gmail, Outlook or
Microsoft 365.
2. Filters decide who gets called
Match From, To, CC, Subject or Body. Send CRITICAL to the on-call phone, ALARM to facilities, ignore the rest. Quiet hours are set per phone.
3. The phone rings and reads it aloud
Press 1 to hear it, then 8 to save, 7 to delete or 5 to record a spoken reply; that acknowledgement is required. Miss it and Email2Phone calls back at 5, 15, 30, 60 and 60 minutes, as long as voicemail is off on that phone.
Built for the alerts you cannot afford to miss
IT administrators and MSPs
Nagios, Zabbix, PRTG, Checkmk, UptimeRobot, Datadog, Grafana — every monitoring tool sends email. Route only CRITICAL and DOWN to a phone call and the on-call admin is woken up, without a per-seat incident platform.
Used a carrier email-to-text gateway? AT&T and T-Mobile have shut theirs; Verizon's vtext.com closes March 31, 2027. Swap the address for your Email2Phone address and delivery is restored.
Facilities, labs and cold storage
Temperature sensors, freezer monitors, alarm panels, cameras, generators and UPS units email when a threshold is crossed. A call at 2 a.m. is the difference between a reset and a lost inventory.
Ring the facilities manager and the backup at the same time; anyone who answers can hear the full message and reply by voice.
Teams that need everyone told at once
Schools, clinics, delivery and field-service teams send one email and every staff phone rings with the same spoken announcement — closures, schedule changes, urgent instructions.
Anyone away from a screen
Drivers, field staff and people who are visually impaired hear their email on any phone, reply by voice, and dial in later to replay messages — for free.
When to use a call, and when a text will do
Use a call for the two or three alerts that justify waking someone, and a text or email for the rest. A call reads the whole message aloud, works on a landline or a basic phone, and on a phone with voicemail switched off calls back at 5, 15, 30, 60 and 60 minutes until somebody presses a key. A text arrives once and can be read in silence, and Email2Phone sends one per email, so it suits the alerts someone should see soon rather than act on now. One phone number can get both. If your carrier's email-to-text address has stopped working, see which gateways still do.
An alert storm is one call
Email2Phone announces how many alerts are waiting, so 80 alert emails at once mean one phone call, not eighty.
Escalation that stops when someone answers
Ring the team one after another or all at once, and stop on the first acknowledgement — or call everyone.
Acknowledged, or it keeps calling
With voicemail switched off on the phone, an alert is only accepted when someone presses a key, and the callbacks keep coming at 5, 15, 30, 60 and 60 minutes. If voicemail picks up, the message is left there and counts as delivered.
Dial in from any phone — free
Call the US, Canada or UK access number, enter your PIN, and replay new or saved messages. No charge for dial-in.
Reply by voice
Record an answer after the message plays. The sender gets an email with a link to your recording.
Simple, predictable pricing
$10/month includes 40 credits: one credit per call minute, or per text, to the US and Canada. Most alert calls are under a minute. See all plans
Questions people ask before signing up
How does Email2Phone work?
You get a dedicated address, yourname@email2phone.net. Send or forward email to it from any system. Email2Phone applies your filters, converts the text to speech and calls the phones you chose. With voicemail switched off on that phone, the alert is only accepted once somebody presses a key, and Email2Phone calls back at 5, 15, 30, 60 and once more at 60 minutes until one does. If voicemail picks up, the message is left there and counts as delivered, and no callbacks follow.
What can trigger a call?
Anything that sends email: monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, PRTG and UptimeRobot; alarm panels and cameras; temperature and freezer sensors; NAS and UPS devices; or a forwarding rule in Gmail, Outlook or Microsoft 365.
Do I need to install an app?
No. Email2Phone places a normal phone call to any mobile, landline or VoIP number, in any country. There is nothing to install on the phone or on the sending system.
How much does it cost?
Plans start at $10 per month with 40 credits. A minute of call time or one text costs 1 credit to the US and Canada; a call minute to any other country costs 1 to 6 credits. Additional credits are $0.25. Dial-in to replay messages is free. A 30-day free trial is available.
Can it call several people?
Yes. Add multiple numbers and dial them one after another or all at once, and choose whether the escalation stops when somebody acknowledges or continues until everyone has been called. Filters can send different emails to different phones.
Can it send a text instead of a call?
Yes. Set any phone number to get a text, a call or both. Texts are one per email, up to 160 characters, and one way, so nobody can acknowledge one; keep the call for the alerts someone has to act on.
Every question, answered in Help, starting with can you call an email address?
Never sleep through a critical alert again
Free 30-day trial, up to three voice calls a day, no credit card required to start. Add your Email2Phone address to one monitoring contact and send a test — your phone rings in moments.