Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

Thu Sep 6 21:17:59 UTC 2007

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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!

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.

Regards,
Ken

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Ken Simpson
CEO, MailChannels

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