[hobbit] fallback alert service

[Josh Luthman]

The real question here is, though, where is the "somewhere else" you would
send it to?

Why can't mobile phone carriers have a decent mail server there and simplify
everything?!

On 11/14/07, Tod Hansmann <thansmann at directpointe.com> wrote:
>
> What I would personally do would be to write a script to test the server
> with a telnet or something, or even get the status from hobbit, and if
> it's ok, send the message, if not, send it somewhere else.  Then the
> alert can just call that script with the proper arguments and go from
> there.
>
> Tod Hansmann
> Network Engineer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:50 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] fallback alert service
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 9:22 AM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> wrote:
> > I've used the txt.att.com for a couple of years and not once missed
> any
> > alerts or notifications of voicemail.  I really can't help you beyond
> this
> > point.  Though I would yell at my mobile provider if that was my
> situation!
>
> I think what Joost is saying is that, when his email server/gateway
> goes down there's no way to send email to his pager to let him know...
>
> Joost - could you get your messages out by posting to a web page??  I
> did that some time back by going to the relevant web page, extracting
> the form, filling in the message, then posting it back.  Once I had
> the method sorted out, I could just post the form without the tedious
> prior steps.  Curl is pretty good for that - it handles http, https,
> proxies, authentication, etc.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
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