[Asterisk-Users] voicemail use external smtp server for sendingmail

[Jerry Workman]

Read this, it describes how to set up sendmail to use a SMART_HOST.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035328.html

Jerry

On 4/17/06, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Asterisk actualy uses the sendmail as you would in the shell. It is up
> to sendmail to decided how to process the message, and yes you are
> right asterisk is *not* the one making the SMTP connection.
> You can't get asterisk to do it directly since asterisk is not
> initiating any connections, but submitting it to a program that is, by
> default that program is sendmail.
>
>
> On 4/17/06, Steve Jones <sjones at ftdata.com> wrote:
> > I had the same question, and I want to make sure I'm clear.....  This
> > implies to me that Asterisk itself doesn't use SMTP, but rather dumps a
> > message into some directory that Sendmail on the same box will see and
> > process?  I have no problem getting Sendmail to use a smarthost, but am
> > I understanding the Asterisk part of this properly, or is there a way to
> > get Asterisk to DIRECTLY use a smarthost, so that Sendmail doesn't have
> > to be running on the local Asterisk box?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: C F [mailto:shmaltz at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 11:02 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] voicemail use external smtp server for
> > sendingmail
> >
> > Yes, just configure your sendmail to do it.
> >
> > On 4/13/06, nik600 <nik600 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > is it possibile to set up an external smtp server for the relay to the
> > > users of the mails?
> > >
> > > thanks
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