Yes, I did read the old thread on this. It dates back to 2010.
Yes, I did have it set up so that when a user started a session, it sent an e-mail to an address I had forwarded to a SMS number. It worked like a dream. If a session came in when I was away from the machine, I got an SMS message and then I could run to the computer to start the session.
But then something changed.
It seems that the "new session" e-mail message got all "fancy" with HTML and a template and such. So when that forwards to my AT&T SMS address, it "chokes" and won't send it to my phone.
I can send a simple non HTML e-mail to my phone using the address I set up, so I know that the e-mail to SMS is working OK.
So someone "made things better" and "messed things up". Can you offer SMS notification when a session arrives as was asked in a thread that goes back 5 years?
If you can't do that, can you undo what you did to the new session e-mail, or offer a "text only" option so those of us who used your suggestion to send ouselves an e-mail redirected to SMS in lieu of the SMS alert feature can continue to utilize this kludge?
Thanks in advance.
And as an older hacker let me offer some advice:
The perfect programmer is one that comes up with solutions to problems that no one has. He/She is in the game only to play with the technology and not to solve user problems. They create work for themselves just because it is a new toy to play with.
A perfect developer, on the other hand, actually asks people what they want and considers the ramifications of the changes. On implementation they also tend to notify users when an impact is going to occur (or did I miss the notification that you were changing things and I needed to do something to keep existing functionality.)
Making the new sesson alert message prettier is solving a problem that no one was having, yet the real problem of an SMS notification is unsolved after 5 years.
Please be like real developers and not real programmers.
