[asterisk-users] Sendmail for Voicemail

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:12:44PM -0500, Brent Davidson wrote:
> I ran into almost this exact same problem when I first installed 
> asterisk.  My company uses a virtualdomain hosted by our isp.  We'll 
> call it mycompany.com for example.  When I first set everything up I 
> wasn't able to send any mail from the asterisk server even though it was 
> on an accepted IP.  The problem turned out to be that I did not use an 
> FQDN along with the e-mail address on the server.  Setting 
> servermail=voicemail at mycompany.com in voicemail.conf didn't solve the 
> problem so I tried creating an actual mailbox under our virtual domain 
> called voicemail.  That still didn't work.  For some reason sendmail was 
> still passing "voicemail at localhost" to the mail server.  What ultimately 
> solved the problem was setting mailcmd=/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f 
> voicemail at mycompany.com in voicemail.conf.  After that relaying worked 
> perfectly.
> 
> Apparently the account had to both exist under our domain and be passed 
> correctly by sendmail.

MTAs (postfix, sendmail, exim, whatever) can be configured to manipulate
the doman part of the sent mail as well. Specifically attaching a
defualt domain name to outgoing name is a well-known manipulation. The
program sending the mail shouldn't always have to care about who is the
sender.

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