[asterisk-dev] Two issues with Asterisk 1.4

[Fernando Urzedo]

Hi Tzafrir,

We use postfix and yes we can send emails from command line using both
root and the non-root user...

Thanks 

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Cohen
Sent: domingo, 3 de agosto de 2008 12:54
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Two issues with Asterisk 1.4

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:43:55PM -0300, Fernando Urzedo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For the past two years I was using Asterisk 1.2.19. This week I have 
> upgraded it to 1.4.21.2 and after that I was not able to solve two
> issues:
> 
> - I always run Asterisk as a Linux user other than "root", with less 
> privileges (for security reasons). When I upgraded Asterisk to version

> 1.4, it was not sending the voicemail alerts anymore. We figured out 
> that, if Asterisk is executed as a root process, the emails are
sent...
> On the other hand, if we execute Asterisk as another user (with less 
> priorities), the emails are not sent anymore. My question is whether 
> only "root" can be used to start Asterisk as of version 1.4 or we are 
> missing some authorization that needs to be granted to this other user

> in order to be able to send the emails;

Do you use a custom "sendmail command" in voicemail.conf?

Can you send mail (e.g. using mail, mailx, mutt) as the user of
asterisk? as root?

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