[outages] AT&T Email to SMS outage?

[Martin Hepworth]

2009/6/10 Paul Norton <paul at neoverve.com>:
> Just got my test message. Took about 2 hours and 10 minutes.
>
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Paul Norton wrote:
>
>> Having issues here in San Diego.  Email to SMS, seeing this error in mail
>> log.
>>
>> (connect to atlsmtp.cingularme.net[66.102.165.114]: Connection timed out)
>>
>>
>> On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Gabriel Grissett wrote:
>>
>>> Been occurring since around 2:04 am CDT.
>>>
>>> Called customer service number and got a story about a Media.Net
>>> outage in southeast.
>>>
>>> Message Service Center +14047259015 if that matters.
>>>
>>> Also replying to SMS received emails from your phone that were already
>>> there yields an error message, sorry I do not have that saved.
>>>
>>> Never get emails sent from gmail never arrive. I assume they suffer a
>>> similar fate?
>>>
>>
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>> Paul Norton
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> Paul Norton
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That sort of delay for SMS text messages isn't unusual - bit like
email  there's no guarantee of timely delivery with SMS. In Europe
delays of this nature aren't uncommon



-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK