If it was mission critical, an SMS gateway. SMTP is great, but we know it has its flaws. I swear I think Verizon and AT&T do things to disrupt "misuse" of thier services. I had a plethora of horrible experiences in the Boston area with an email-to-SMS system.
Direct SMS and paging services are more reliable in my experience. -- ME2 On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > What would you use? > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:56, Micheal Espinola Jr > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have found email-to-sms to be infrequently, yet sporadically unreliable > > across all carriers. I would not rely on it for anything critical. > > > > -- > > ME2 > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Louis, Joe <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Anyone having problems sending an email to an AT&T cell phone as an SMS > >> (via email address [email protected])? All of a sudden, our > >> messages are not reaching our cell phones. This just affects our AT&T > >> phones. > >> > >> Some customer service person at AT&T told our people that they are > >> transitioning people away from email messages to cell phones as text. We > pay > >> for an SMS package. I’m clueless as to why they would care about the > source > >> when we pay for the SMS volume. > >> > >> Anyone else experiencing this? How are you generating SMS messages to > >> non-mobile-email-enable devices? We’ve always preached that SMS is not a > >> guaranteed service/delivery so time sensitive needs shouldn’t be pushed > >> there, but we’re going to have to come up with another deployment if > AT&T > >> sticks to their guns. > >> > >> -Joe Louis > >> > >> > > > > >
