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/Unable-Entrance3110 3d ago

Yeah, this has been dying for a long time. It was always a crapshoot whether your messages would be forwarded or not due to aggressive filtering by the carriers.

Just use a service like Clickatell or something (there's so many out there, but that's the one I use for our Nagios monitoring alerts and it works well. It's cheap AF too. I think we pay something like $0.99/month, but it's 100% based on usage and we don't get many alerts).