It happens. We had the same issue with Sprint sending messages from a monitoring system via email to the gateway and then getting SMS text messages on our smart phones. It worked great for years and then recently we started getting SMS messages hours late. After some troubleshooting we determined it was a delay at the Sprint email/SMS gateway. We switched to AT&T and the problem went away. -- Tim Sanderson -----Original Message----- From: outages-bounces@outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] On Behalf Of Steve Ryan Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:13 AM To: Martin Hepworth Cc: outages@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] AT&T Email to SMS outage? Isn't unusual? Are you kidding? It's pretty unusual here in the US. I wouldn't recommend using e-mail to SMS for anything critical but for years, at least in my experience, it's been zippy enough. 12+ hours in some cases for e-mail to SMS though? Come on, that makes it totally unusable. You Europeans should demand better service! Regards, Steve Martin Hepworth wroteth on 6/10/2009 12:11 AM:
2009/6/10 Paul Norton <paul@neoverve.com>:
Just got my test message. Took about 2 hours and 10 minutes.
On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Paul Norton wrote:
Having issues here in San Diego. Email to SMS, seeing this error in mail log.
(connect to atlsmtp.cingularme.net[66.102.165.114]: Connection timed out)
On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Gabriel Grissett wrote:
Been occurring since around 2:04 am CDT.
Called customer service number and got a story about a Media.Net outage in southeast.
Message Service Center +14047259015 if that matters.
Also replying to SMS received emails from your phone that were already there yields an error message, sorry I do not have that saved.
Never get emails sent from gmail never arrive. I assume they suffer a similar fate?
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That sort of delay for SMS text messages isn't unusual - bit like email there's no guarantee of timely delivery with SMS. In Europe delays of this nature aren't uncommon
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