Delay sending txt messages to cell phone?

[arzoo]

This is very strange and I’m not sure it has anything to do with the ISY – but maybe someone has a suggestion to solve my issue; I set up notifications to my phone via @txt.att.net. My ISP is 1and1. Lately, when the ISY sends a message (via test or program), I don’t receive it on my phone for a long time – like hours later!

 

The reason I don’t think this is an issue with the ISY is because if I send an email from 1and1 webmail to @txt.att.net it also does not deliver for hours. But if I send the email from another smtp server (like Google), it delivers immediately. So it’s like AT&T has a problem with my phones txt email from 1and1.com? Contacting 1and1 is almost useless because their offshore tech support people know absolutely nothing. I guess I could contact AT&T – might get better tech support from them.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks!

[Michel Kohanim]

Hello arzoo,

 

Quite strange. You can easily setup a gmail account which can only be use for notifications. Then, configure ISY to use your gmail account for sending notifications.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[arzoo]

Michel – thanks for the response. That’s what I ended up doing – created a gmail account. I still would have preferred using the mail account associated with my domain on 1and1, but for now the gmail account seems to work fine. I do intend to call AT&T and see if they have an answer.

 

By the way – on a slightly different subject; for those that use AT&T and want all the text messages from the ISY to group together (on the phone), you can use @mms.att.net (rather than @txt.att.net). It might be nice to add that to the ISY admin app under the notification recipient list.

[dzarn]

I don't have a solution, but I've seen the same thing happen - the message sends fine, but somewhere along the line takes a nap for several hours. Then it pops up on the phone like nothing happens. The only way we were able to 'prove' it was to put a timestamp in the message body. So it's definitely not just you.

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi arzoo,

 

Thanks so very much. Added mms.att.net to the list.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[arzoo]

I don't have a solution, but I've seen the same thing happen - the message sends fine, but somewhere along the line takes a nap for several hours. Then it pops up on the phone like nothing happens. The only way we were able to 'prove' it was to put a timestamp in the message body. So it's definitely not just you.

 

At least I know it's not just me

 

Are you using AT&T and/or 1and1?

[kevkmartin]

Check out the iPhone app "push".

 

It provides an e-mail interface to send push notifications to iDevices; it's MUCH faster than mms /txt.

[dzarn]

We were actually sending identical messages to several different phones on all 4 major networks. T-Mo, Sprint & Verizon came through immediately, AT&T would come in hours later, but with no indication that it was hours late.

[arzoo]

Check out the iPhone app "push".

It provides an e-mail interface to send push notifications to iDevices; it's MUCH faster than mms /txt.

 

Not everyone uses an iPhone

[kevkmartin]

Really?!?!

 

 

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[arzoo]

It's funny because just yesterday I was talking with my wife and I mentioned that I would never own an iPhone or an "i" anything. She asked what if in the future I needed an iKidney? I told her that I would die!

[gatchel]

It's funny because just yesterday I was talking with my wife and I mentioned that I would never own an iPhone or an "i" anything. She asked what if in the future I needed an iKidney? I told her that I would die!

 

Right there with you...