[asterisk-users] Cannot send mail from System command [SOLVED]

[Ishfaq Malik]

On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 10:10 +0100, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I'm trying to create a fax to email function.
> I'm using asterisk 1.8.7.0 on Centos 5.6 and using mutt to send the
> email with an attachment
> 
> Whenever the system command to send the mail is executed, no mail is
> sent (have tried using mail as well as mutt)
> 
> When I execute the same command from command line using my own user the
> mail and attachment are sent without a problem.
> The attachment has asterisk as user and 0644 permissions. The file I'm
> using for the body of text has 0777 permissions.
> I know system is executing commands as I did a touch command to test it.
> 
> Asterisk is running as user asterisk.
> 
> Is there something obvious that I'm missing?  
> 
> 

There was something simple that I was missing. The asterisk user hadn't
been assigned a valid shell.

Used chsh and assigned it /bin/bash and it now works.

Ish

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