We have used as an alternate email a dialup account. Requires a data line to the PC, and another account though. We have used Budget Dialup as an alternate ISP. It's a pre-pay solution, so no monthly bills, and you can buy as little as 10 hours at a time. Their email server is slow, so once the dialup connection is made we point to our corporate email providers SMTP server.
Michael Shook Business Continuity Analyst Saddle Creek Corporation 723 Joe Tamplin Industrial Blvd Macon GA 31217 478 742 8740 ext. 105 (work) 478 256 9318 (mobile) 478 742 7917 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saddlecrk.com >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/03 11:42AM >>> I've been using Servers Alive for a while, but so far have just been using it to send e-mail based alerts to a cell phone: one page when a server or process is down, again when it comes back. Works great as long as the network itself is up, and the primary and/or secondary e-mail server(s) are also up, which is 99% of the time. I'm wanting however to add some more robustness. I'm wondering what have others found as the best way to page when the network itself is unavailable, or both primary and/or secondary e-mail server(s) are unavailable. I'm looking for recommendations on what works well. Perhaps use the "Numeric Paging" option, and configure Servers Alive to call your cell phone, knowing that a call from the servers number with several "beeps" means the network is down? Perhaps purchase a pager, and carry it in addition to a cell phone, and use the "Alpha Paging" option? Thanks, Peter To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
