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November 14, 2024 at 3:22 pm #8539Frank Cris
For many years I have been having ELK M1G send me texts using the Verizon cell number@vtext.com. Recently I have been having trouble. The problem I’m having is that the texts are inconsistent, where they do not arrive for hours or days, or do not arrive at all, but mostly arrive a day late, and all at once. This problem exists over 3 separate identical installs at 3 separate locations — all using the same email to Verizon text settings.
This problem exists regardless of the email account or M1XEP settings I use. And it seems as if Verizon is the problem. Perhaps Verizon is now viewing these emails as spam and purposefully slowing them down.
Does anyone have a similar experience, and possibly a solution.
Thanks,
Frank
November 16, 2024 at 3:08 pm #8541Douglas WehmannThanks for posting this, I thought I was going crazy as I have the same issue. I thought my rule wasn’t firing, so I added THEN ANNOUNCE to the rule. I changed the send to a Gmail account. The text issue seems sporadic, today I tried texting with a rule that fired every minute, it worked fine. Anxious to see if anyone else has the issue, or better, a solution.
November 16, 2024 at 3:27 pm #8542Douglas WehmannDid a quick search, someone mentioned another route, phone number@vzwpix.com. I tried it, worked for me. Give it a shot.
November 17, 2024 at 4:26 pm #8543Keith BeltSame issue. Used GMX as a forwarder for many years, because we needed to send messages to more than one phone. But they discontinued the features making that possible. Then set the system up using Gmail’s mailserver with app-password, directly to each phone individually (had to duplicate messages and it really cut down on the numer of events we could track), but we still get erratic performance. Half the time the messges never arrive at all, or we’ll suddenly get a wave of old messages all at once. Didn’t matter if we were using Verizon or ATT as carrier, same poor behavior. I don’t know if its because of increased security against spam, but I’m pretty confident the probem is at the phone carriers.
Note to ELK staff: The ELK Connect app does app-based notifications. You need to do the same for M1. Doesn’t need to be a whole programmer app, just the kernel that does notifications on phones. Its becoming increasingly impossible to actually program “dumb” email to text messaging, either because you can’t get the technical details out of your ISP or the phone carriers block it. One of the best things about M1 is the flexibility to send custom notices based on any event, but we’re living on borrowed time here. An app-based notification is going to quickly become the only viable way to keep this M1 feature working.
November 23, 2024 at 7:58 am #8575Frank CrisI tried everything, and it seems that it’s Verizon that’s causing the problem. Apparently, if they see anything that resembles “spam” they will slow down, and delay the sending.
To prove this, I now have the M1XEP send the emails to another email address, then I wrote a rule in the email app to forward anything that comes from M1XEP to my number@vzwpix.com. It’s stupid complicated, but it works perfectly — until Verizon flags that email also. I have my shop techies looking into a paid subscription for an Email-to-SMS service — maybe that will help.
I can probably call Verizon and have then whitelist the email, but I’m sure that would be painful.
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