Long SMS notification won't deliver

[shlomia]

Hi, I noticed that when there is a long notification that is sent by SMS, I sometimes won't receive it because I it's too long.
I was wondering what the characters limit is per message and if there a way to split the SMS? or do I just need to send by SMS less information as possible?
Thank you

[LenR]

Our SMS service (At east the one that got complaints) did the splitting, people would receive messages as (1 of 4) (2 of 4) etc. I think your character limit is being imposed by the SMS service, not by Zabbix.

[shlomia]

Our SMS service (At east the one that got complaints) did the splitting, people would receive messages as (1 of 4) (2 of 4) etc. I think your character limit is being imposed by the SMS service, not by Zabbix.

Hi, I just figured the limit for my SMS Dongle is 160 characters.
When I try to send more than 160, I get the following error:

https://i.imgur.com/FBNaYef.png

How can I tell if it this is something on my carrier side or Zabbix?

[LenR]

I think it's just reporting that the SMS service refused the message. Does your service have an email gateway? We use a media type of email instead of SMS (didn't want a modem) maybe that is what chunks the message.

[provels]

Do you know the email equivalent of the SMS address? For example, mine is <phone number>@txt.att.net. You could then test message sizes using an email client.