Sending email as a text message is a useful feature indeed. It can save you when you don’t have cellular service, but you are connected to wi-fi. But what if you need to send an email, but you don’t have an internet connection? Today a lot of people don’t have internet coverage all the time, but they do have cellular service. Alternatively, you may use another option, which will forward your texts from your iPhone to your email. Go to Settings > Messages > Receive At and choose to Add An Email at the bottom. Then simply enter the email address where you’d like your texts to be forwarded. Actually I8217;ve tried it since posting that comment, and their texts do come back to my Gmail account, which is vital for this to be a really useful future, so I8217;m definitely glad about that. One person even transitioned from responding by text, to signing into her gmail account to continue the conversation, and gmail seamlessly kept the conversation going in the same chat window for me. why can't send text and email to my address When she switched from her phone to gmail, it just started showing her name on each message instead of her phone number. And of course it8217;s all saved in my Gmail chat history. Gmail is smooth.