Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

From: Rick Kunkel (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 16:46:18 EDT

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    Hello folks,

    First off, apologies if this is off topic. I'm hoping that system and
    network monitoring tip are enough of a common issue that this falls under
    the group's charter.

    We've traditionally used mobile phone email addresses for system
    notifications, but over the past 6-12 months, it seems to have become
    increasingly sketchy.

    For instance, if an application fails to contact a certain service on a
    certain server, it sends an email (through it's own SMTP service, to avoid
    a chicken-and-egg prob if/when our main SMTP service fails) to
    . (Obviously, that was a fake number.) More and
    more, I'm getting less and less of these notifications.

    It seems especially prevalent when MANY things are sent at once; if, for
    example, a central piece fails, and dependent pieces suddenly fail as
    well.

    I try to telnet to mailx.tmomail.net port 25 and get sometimes good,
    sometimes laggy, and sometimes no response. T-Mobile, support levels all
    the way up to 3 tell me that it's not them, and everything should work
    wonderfully.

    Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?

    Anyone else have any issues, past or present, with this kind of thing?

    Thanks,

    Rick Kunkel

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