Email to Text Blocked on all Mobile Carriers

[stillcopper]

With the major US based mobile carriers now blocking email-to-text we are looking for an alternative server arrangement that works with the XEP.
Currently we have our own in-house dedicated email server getting requests from our XEP clients in the field to do email-text relaying. Been working great for years. It's a simple, free, email server, not exchange. All it does for us is set in the rack and get email requests from XEP units.
We were submitting to the carriers that we are not a spam bot. That doesn't work anymore and if it does it takes weeks.

Is anyone using a third party service such as Twilio or somebody else to do this?
Or set up their own SMS server in house?
One major question would be if the XEP has the security credentials (TLS,SSL,etc.) to satisfy a third party service.
A large client of ours with their own exchange server uses a third party, but that's a single point registration to their 3rd party service, whereas we need it for hundreds of entry points.

 

[amos]

I've been sending Elk status messages to my phone for years.
Granted I don't use the XEP directly, but have a script on a PC that monitors the XEP output and emails anything interesting to (phone)@vzwpix.com.

Last year had general issues with sending email from my private server and started using SMTP2GO.com to do the send.
That worked for sending to Verizon until a couple of months ago.
Everything still looks like it sends properly on my end but never gets to the phone.
Assume Verizon sends it to a black hole at their end.

BUT ... Just sent an email from my gmail account to (phone)@vzwpix.com and it went through?

 

[JonW]

Google the terms "A2P" and "10DLC" and you'll find a lot of info about restrictions that have been placed on applications being able to text in the last couple of years. It has become very difficult for individuals to be able to reliably use texting from programs as we once did.

 

[Mark S.]

It has become very difficult for individuals to be able to reliably use texting from programs as we once did.

Why are they closing avenues for sending texts? It is hard to imagine a high security risk, especially if the user takes on that risk.

 

[JonW]

It has to do with text spam. The telco gateways (phone#@xyz.com) were just continuously pumping out spam to their subscribers since it costs spammers nothing to send junk email. Likewise, spammers would use SMS gateways like MessageBird, Twilio, etc. and pump messages through there. Now all companies have to do a 10DLC "use case" registration to certify what types of bulk messages they will send. You have to admit, the amount of text spam is very low now, but it has created a burden to entry for anyone wanting to casually send SMS via A2P.