[asterisk-users] Mail Server

[Mike Hammett]

I am the ISP.  ;-)

I'll have to look into that smarthost deal as there is no reverse DNS at 
this time (my upstream's server times out).


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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Anderson" <erikerik at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Mail Server


> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Mike Hammett <asterisk-users at ics-il.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I need to setup a small mail server on a local network.  It only needs 
>> SMTP
>> ability as it's just so Asterisk can send out emails.  The machine has
>> sendmail installed.  My primary mail server seems to be rejecting the
>> messages.  Some research says something isn't configured properly.  What 
>> do
>> I have to do so the outside world accepts emails from my Asterisk box? 
>> It
>> is behind a NAT.
>
> Does your ISP provide an SMTP server you can use?  If so, it's usually
> easiest to set that up as a "smarthost" and tell sendmail to send
> through that server.  If this isn't an option, you need to make sure
> that your asterisk server has a valid publicly-available DNS record
> (and reverse DNS).  That's most likely the reason the remote server is
> rejecting these emails.
>
> -erik
>
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