[asterisk-users] Asterisk to Email

[Philipp Kempgen]

Thomas Perron schrieb:
> I am reading a lot of the material but need your input to help me
> understand what you mean.
> 
> System(echo body of message | mail -s "subject line"
> ${the_caller_id}@tmobile.net)
> 
> I understand the System application generally
> echo body of message .................?

Please read the man page of the `echo` command.
man echo
( http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?echo )

> mail -s --------------what does this do please?
> "subject line" .................comes from where?

man mail
( http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?mail )

> ${the_caller_id}@tmobile.net) ............i understand this part.

> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 08:25:33PM -0500, Thomas Perron wrote:
>>
>>> And, then send an email to the party.  Example....
>>>
>>> 3035551212 at tmobile.net
>>>
>>> Summary
>>> 1.  Capture the CID number.
>>> 2.  Prepend his number to his service provider SMTP address
>>> 3.  Email it to his phone
>>
>>
>> System(echo body of message | mail -s "subject line" ${the_caller_id}@tmobile.net)
>>
>> Note the usage of '|' here. IIRC it needs to be escaped on Asterisk
>> 1.4.x and below.
>>
>>>
>>> I assume I need to install SendMail and play around with CID stuff.
>>
>> Sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail - any program that provides a local
>> sendmail interface.
>>
>> I personally prefer postfix.


    Philipp Kempgen
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