[asterisk-users] email notification to external email address

[Lyle Giese]

Brian Simpson wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a problem. The company I work for has been bought out by a bigger 
> company. The employees are in the process of changing all their email 
> addresses to the new company name. I have my voicemail.conf file setup 
> to email users when they have a voicemail message. The mail server that 
> was used to notify everybody is on the same network as the Asterisk PBX. 
> Now I have to change all the emails in the voicemail.conf file to the 
> new company's email addresses. The email server for them are external of 
> the network that the Asterisk sits on. I have change a couple to test 
> but the email notification is not happening. Any idea what is going on 
> and how to resolve. Is there something else that I need to do to get the 
> emails to work? I am new to the Asterisk and have been forced to take 
> over for someone that has left the company. I do have telephony 
> experience with Legacy systems.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
>   
Most likely the box is using sendmail or postfix to send those emails 
out. You need to setup sendmail/postfix to use a smarthost using smtp 
auth to allow relaying from this box.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.