[99127] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matthew zeier)
Thu Sep 6 17:39:38 2007
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:22:10 -0700
From: matthew zeier <mrz@velvet.org>
To: Ken Simpson <ksimpson@mailchannels.com>
CC: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070906211758.GB11787@mailchannels.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Ken Simpson wrote:
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>> It takes ~ 7 minutes from the time Nagios sends an email sms to AT&T to
>> the time it hits my phone. I'm using @mobile.mycingular.com because
>> mmode.com stopped working (which results in at least two txt pages vs.
>> the one I was used to).
>>
>>> Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?
>> I'm beginning to think it is!
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> It's more effective to spend the money on SMS messages. Mobile
> providers are forced to use very aggressive anti spam measures, which
> can add significant delays in message delivery.
Recommendations on software and modems?
