Has anyone ever ran into issues with cell provider when sending alarms to phones via e-mail?
My current company is using Top View for alarm notification; they don’t have ignition SCADA (yet 
). They were kind of forced by AT&T (the work phone provider) to get the Business Messenger App for phones after AT&T saw the original alarms as spam and blocked it. So now instead of sending the alarms to #@txt.att.net they are sent to #@page.att.net and the app has to be running on the phone to recieve it. If the app isn’t running then the phone gets some non-descript message from a random short-code number. Not ideal to say the least.
Looking into it with my understanding of ignition-based alarm notification I found that the Top View server is not utilizing SMTP but just sending them “directly.” This is where I think my company messed up and if they had set it up with the proper SMTP information then all would have been good. “Direct,” probably works great within a network but I can’t see it be seen as anything but spam from cell carriers or other outside SMTP servers.
So I am looking to see if anyone with ignition, since for e-mails to phones you need to have an SMTP, has ran into a similar thing with cell providers. I can’t tell if this is just bad configuration of the alarm server or AT&T has changed their policies on e-mail to text. If people have had this issue then I’ll probably continue in looking for an SMS solution so we can get off the app.
Thanks!