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         smarty Super User 
          
  
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           | Posted: May 04 2019 at 09:19 | IP Logged
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Spectrum is my main internet provider, and AT&T is our main cell 
 phone provider.
 
 What I am noticing is that only a small fraction (1 or 2 per day) actually 
 arrive to my cell phone (as the text message quickly should).  
 
 My PowerHome send formula’s do work (in that they give the expected 
 “0” return result), but for whatever reason, the messages routinely 
 (mostly) NOT arrive to my cell phone.
 
 I suspect that Spectrum is somehow blocking these out going e-mail 
 text message (maybe think that they are spam from a compromised 
 computer ....which they are not).
 
 I have heard of an e-mail service that runs an encrypted tunnel 
 between you and it; and then it sends out the e-mails, vouching for the 
 fact that they are not spam, and making sure that their servers stay 
 OFF THE SPAM BLACKLISTS (but I don’t recall the name of the E-
 MAIL service).
 
 How are are other people handling this for time sensitive e-mail based 
 TEXT notifications?  I don’t mind spending some $$....seems I have 
 more of that than time lately.
  Many thanks,
 Steve  
  __________________ Elk - Insteon - BlueIris - DMC1 - PowerHome - XLobby - HA_Bridge w/Dots - Brultech
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         TonyNo Moderator Group 
          
  
  Joined: December 05 2001 Location: United States
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           | Posted: May 04 2019 at 09:53 | IP Logged
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AT&T was my provider for both (but Earthlink for email) forever and never had a problem with text messages. I recently switched to Comcast for Internet and it's still working.
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         HarrySaw Newbie 
          
  
  Joined: May 24 2019 Location: United States
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           | Posted: May 29 2019 at 16:48 | IP Logged
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Yup, Comcast for me as well.    
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