[Asterisk-Users] Using Exchange to send voicemail message

[Scott Weis]

Simple answer, Without using sendmail to send the message to the exchange
server the answer is no. Asterisk is a linux based PBX with no build in MTA.
It needs an external program to send mail. So unless you have a linux
program that can speak exchange you need sendmail (Or any program that
compiles on linux with a sendmail like interface(Postfix, courier, etc)).

 Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Tyreman" <paul at tyreman.org.uk>
To: <Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using Exchange to send voicemail message


Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using Exchange to send voicemail messageAn of course,
its SMTP that I need.

I don't want sendmail to send mail to the exchange server, I want to use the
exchange server to send the mail in the first place !

What I want to do is forget about sendmail, and make an account on the
exchange server for asterisk to send mail from.

Can that be done ?

Thanks, Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Robert Hajime
Lanning
Posted At: 25 April 2004 19:40
Posted To: Asterisk-Users
Conversation: [Asterisk-Users] Using Exchange to send voicemail message
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using Exchange to send voicemail message


IMAP and POP3 are used for the MUA to get access to a mailbox.  They are not
used for delivering messages to a mailbox, but for reading message out of a
mailbox.

What you are looking for, is an SMTP gateway.  Sendmail is an SMTP MTA that
can be configured to send the email (via SMTP/ESMTP) to the Exchange server.

All you really need to do is have the DNS MX records for foo.com pointing to
your Exchange server.  Then, in voicemail.conf you would have the email
address set to user at foo.com.

Of course, change foo.com to whatever your domain, for the Exchange server,
is. And, make sure you have the SMTP connector configured for Exchange.

<quote who="Paul Tyreman">
> Hi,
>
> I run a local exchange server and would like asterisk to send
> voicemail notification messages via exchange.
>
> I have had a look at the voicemail.conf file, but I can't see how I
> would go about configuring it to use an account set up on exchange ?
> The exchange account would have both POP3 and IMAP access, so how can
> I tell Asterisk to use the exchange account rather then sendmail ?
>
> Thanks, Paul.

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