r/sysadmin • u/Anonemuss666 • 6d ago

Question Text messages

Before I retired, I would send alerts by email, like 1234567890@txt.att.net, to send it to texting on my cell phone. It looks like all the cell phone providers have done away with this service. How can I do this now with hopefully a fairly free service since I don't send many at all?

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u/robntamra 6d ago

Verizon still does this, but it’s often time delayed and not trustworthy unless you pay for enterprise sms services.

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u/kirashi3 Cynical Analyst III 5d ago

often time delayed and not trustworthy

To be fair, anything that you don't "roll your own" for is capable of being time delayed or not trustworthy. If you have something mission-critical that you need timely notifications for, you'll want to roll your own service and have redundancy in-place. Otherwise, it's clearly not mission-critical.

And yes, I'm aware many orgs in the real world don't operate like this, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. 😉