[asterisk-users] Setup ReceiveFax(), fax2mail, mime-construct - but now Sendmail :(

[sean darcy]

Using 1.6 on Fedora Core 9 I'm trying to receive faxes. I've got this far:

[incoming-fax]
exten => 
s,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d%H%M)}-0${CALLERIDNUM})
exten => s,2,ReceiveFAX(${FAXFILE}.tif)
exten => s,3,Hangup()
exten=>h,1,System(/usr/local/bin/fax2mail --cid-number "0${CALLERIDNUM}" 
--cid-name "home fax" --dest-name "admin"  --dest-email "${admin_email}" 
-f  "${FAXFILE}")

which all seems work well on the CLI. No errors.

fax2mail uses mime-contruct to send the fax by sendmail. That didn't work.

No email. /var/log/maillog:

Dec 19 21:04:53 asterisk sendmail[2628]: mBH2mWvQ006043: 
to=<admin at myco.com>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain> (0/0), 
delay=2+23:16:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6640305, 
relay=mx01.1and1.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out 
with mx01.1and1.com.
Dec 19 21:04:53 asterisk sendmail[2628]: mBH2mWvS006043: 
to=<admin at myco.com>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain> (0/0), 
delay=2+23:16:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6640312, 
relay=mx00.1and1.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out 
with mx00.1and1.com.

I've avoided MTA's like sendmail for a _long_ time. So I need help.

1. Is this the right list to try to resolve this? If not, which list?

2. postfix seems to considered much easier to configure than sendmail. 
Do I install postfix? If so, will this work out of the box?

3. If sendmail, what's the magic configuration?

sean