[Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

Mon Mar 20 08:29:26 MST 2006

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you did here, but I just want to make sure...  First, in the "network' file, the goal was to change the hostname from "localhost.localdomain" reference to a real hostname that would be accepted, so that the file would look more like:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=asterisk.mydomain.com

And the other poster was recommeding that the hosts file, should be setup to point the loopback address to that name as well, such as adding (or modifying the existing 127.0.0.1 line to look like:

127.0.0.1 asterisk.mydomain.com

Another thing to do, would be to go to your /etc/mail/access file  [vi /etc/mail/access] ahd make sure, or add your localhost as a trusted machine for sendmail..  From this link http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/sendmail.htm I am reading/recommending that you put lines such as these in your "access" file:

localhost.localdomain           RELAY
localhost                       RELAY
127.0.0.1                       RELAY

If your "access" file isn't in the /etc/mail directory, you may have to do a "locate access" to find it..  "locate" will only work if you have sometime in the past run an "updatedb" to build the hard drive's index for the locate to work on it...

Hope this helps..  

-Steve

________________________________

From: hugolivude [mailto:hugolivude at gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 3/20/2006 10:14 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

Guys,

Thanks again for all your help.  I've updated /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts as per your suggestions:

/etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.1  <my external, static IP address> asterisk localhost

/etc/hosts:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    localhost
127.0.0.1  <my external, static IP address> asterisk localhost

But still no luck.  I've also noticed a problem when I boot the server.  Sendmail along with a number of other processes generate an errror message.  They're all pretty much the same error message and same line number so here's an example:

etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit error line 3: 127.0.0.1 command not found

FWIW, I've included the first part of my etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit below.

I'm stumped.  This was working before, what could have possibly happened?  Any other ideas on how to fix it before I go and re-install RedHat??

Thanks,
Hugh

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - run once at boot time
#
# Taken in part from Miquel van Smoorenburg's bcheckrc.
#

# Rerun ourselves through initlog
if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" -a -x /sbin/initlog ]; then
    exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -r /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
fi

# If we're using devfs, start devfsd now - we need the old device names
[ -e /dev/.devfsd -a -x /sbin/devfsd ] && /sbin/devfsd /dev

HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/network
else
    NETWORKING=no
fi
if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ]; then
    HOSTNAME=localhost
fi

. /etc/init.d/functions

# Start the graphical boot, if necessary
if [ "$BOOTUP" = "graphical" ]; then
  if [ -x /usr/bin/rhgb ]; then
     /usr/bin/rhgb
  else
     export BOOTUP=color
  fi
fi

last=0
for i in `LC_ALL=C grep '^[0-9]*.*respawn:/sbin/mingetty' /etc/inittab | sed 's/^.* tty\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/g'`; do
      > /dev/tty$i
      last=$i
done
if [ $last -gt 0 ]; then
     > /dev/tty$((last+1))
     > /dev/tty$((last+2))
fi

if [ "`/sbin/consoletype`" = "vt" -a -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then

   echo -n "Setting default font ($SYSFONT): "
   /sbin/setsysfont
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
      success
   else
      failure
   fi
   echo ; echo
fi

On 3/17/06, Colin Anderson <ColinA at landmarkmasterbuilder.com> wrote: 

	if you are using Sendmail, then you have to add a trusted user to /etc/sendmail.cf in the format:

	Tuser

	So if the user you run Asterisk under is called "asterisk" then you add Tasterisk to sendmail.cf. Restart Sendmail. Then in voicemail.conf you can set the email address to whatever you want, it's at the top of the config file, I believe. 

		-----Original Message-----
		From: hugolivude [mailto:hugolivude at gmail.com]

		Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:49 AM
		To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
		Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

	Wow, Thanks so much for all your help.  I tried Steve's suggestion using tail and found:

	from=<root at localhost.localdomain >, ...
	stat=Deferred: 450 <root at localhost.localdomain>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found

	So it looks like the sender email is no longer acceptable.  This worked fine b4, so perhaps the ISP taking care of the callees email has changed its policy?  Anyway, I could use a hand on how to fix this.  How do I get Asterisk to use a valid email address rather than root at localhost.localdomain?

	Many Thanks,
	Hugh

	On 3/17/06, Steve Jones <sjones at ftdata.com> wrote: 

		Do a "tail -f /var/log/maillog" which will give you a  real-time view of your mail server activity, then while that's running, leave yourself a voicemail.

		________________________________

		From: Tony Mountifield [mailto:tony at softins.clara.co.uk]
		Sent: Fri 3/17/2006 10:13 AM
		To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
		Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

		In article <c471e4e30603170705t5e596848laf5a0a490b178b12 at mail.gmail.com >,
		hugolivude <hugolivude at gmail.com> wrote:
		>
		> I'm running a 1.1 version of Asterisk (a stable build from back in Oct-05)
		> running on RedHat 9.0 .  Everything's been great but a couple of days ago, we
		> all stopped receiving emails of our voicemail.  There's been no changes to
		> our configuration
		>
		> I bet I'm expereiencing a Linux problem rather than an Asterisk problem, but 
		> because I know only as much Linux as required to get Asterisk going, I'm
		> hoping someone can steer me in the right direction!
		>
		> Any suggestions where/how to troubleshoot?

		The first place to look would be in /var/log/maillog on the box. 

		Look particularly around the time when a voicemail should have been sent.

		Cheers
		Tony
		--
		Tony Mountifield
		Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk
		Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org

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