Barry, What I do is send two alerts - one by regular email using SMTP built in to SA. For the second (that goes to my cell phone) I use the "Alerts - Other Mail" feature in Setup. I configure it to use a command line emailer (open source blatit) to modify the from address like this:
blatit -to 9055551...@pcs.isp.com -i %...@yourdomain.com Then in my alert entries I send Other mail with the message body: %p-%s So alerts show up as: Website-DOWN Website-RUNNING You could switch the order around to %s-%p if you like. Your entry pretty name must be set as one word for this to work. I never have to "read" the email on my phone since all the info I need is in the "from" address. You would have to use a properly authenticated smtp account and provide the remaining parameters for blatit to work. -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:sal...@woodstone.nu] On Behalf Of Barry George Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 12:00 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Formatting SMS messages Correct Dirk, which is why I thought there would be little I could do about it. Just checking. Ill contact my service provider but I am likely SOL. Thanks Barry *************** Sent from my Android handheld. ----- Original Message ----- From:"Dirk Bulinckx" <d...@woodstone.nu> To:"Servers Alive Discussion List" <salive@woodstone.nu> Sent:04/06/2010 9:11 PM Subject:RE: [SA-list] Formatting SMS messages And what are you using as alert? And how did you configure the messagebody for that alert? My guess is that you're using an SMTP alert and that you're using a TO email address that is send to a pager. And that the forwarding service is putting that emailaddress infront of the actual message. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.