[Asterisk-Users] Using Exchange to send voicemail message

[Chris Maresca]

What is your final goal?  Because, fundamentally, it does not matter where
the mail originates from, as it will simply be treated as mail.

If you asterisk install is running on a box that supports exchange, then
you can use it as the MTA, otherwise, you can setup the local Linux/unix
MTA (sendmail/postfix/whatever) to masquerade as any machine you'd like.

You can also set the local MTA to use a relay MTA, like exchange.  BUT,
what everyone is telling you is correct, SMTP is the transport protocol
for mail, and you need a local MTA (Mail Transport Agent) to speak SMTP to
another MTA for any mail to be, er, "exchanged".

Oh, and yes, Outlook acts as a local MTA for WinX machines, that's what
happens when you set an 'outbound' mail server...

Chris.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Paul Tyreman wrote:

> 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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chris maresca
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