Brad,

Thank you for your response. I totally understand your position, but in my very rural environment, I can respond quicker than the first responders.

Eric,

I have had a dedicated email address for my two M1 systems, and had setup rules for a daily ‘heartbeat’ to be sent to those email addresses for the past 12 years. This basically tells me my M1 communication systems are still up and running. These emails are almost instantaneous, but understand, as Brad has stated, they are dependent on the email servers… I have changed my 1-16 M1 email messages to now communicate to those email addresses instead of trying to communicate directly to our phones via text, when I found out that Verizon text communications were not working through gmail in a timely manner, and there really is no such work around in gmail or yahoo….  These have been working great…

Thanks for the feedback…