[medbar]

many mobile carriers allow sending texts via email (for example: [e-mail] with a verizon number), which might be worth looking into should you want to avoid twilio completely.

[davidgh]

Sadly, it seems this option is fading away, at least in the US.

https://www.smseagle.eu/2025/05/08/no-support-for-email-to-t...

[is_true]

I did this with my carrier in my country and a couple of years ago it stopped working.

I had a filter in Gmail that forwarded some emails and a cron script that checked the value from a river gauge and sent a text.