[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail message as e-mail attachment

[Simon J Mudd]

dtoma at fx.ro ("Dan") writes:

> I have done a search through the local messages and the problem seems to be
> that the mail sent by Asterisk use as sender root at mycomp.mydomain.ro, but
> this domain is not a registered one, so the destination server does not
> accept it.
>
> I must have a registered domain/server in order to use this feature
> (voicemail by email)?

No, but many mail servers check that the email address you use is
"valid". Valid has several meanings, but probably means that the
_sending_ address you use should be "deliverable" and is in a real
domain.  If you use Asterisk _entirely_ in your company this may not
be necessary, but otherwise you are going to cause yourself real
trouble if you don't use a "real address".

Perhaps this should be stated more clearly in the voicemail.conf?

> Why sendmail is required to send only a mail?

"sendmail" (the sendmail MTA) isn't required to send email. What is
required is a sendmail compatible binary at /usr/sbin/sendmail.

> Asterisk cannot send directly to the destination MX without the need
> for a local SMTP server?

Writing a mail server is not as easy as you might think. Better leave
to a program dedicated to this task, though it doesn't have to
specifically be sendmail (inspite of the binary's name).

Simon