[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail problem

[Soren Rathje]

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean Garland" <sean at siskiyoutech.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:53 PM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail problem


> How do you specify sendmail, or any mail program?  I changed the
> servermail= to equal my in-house exchange server, and allowed relaying
> by it's the pbx's IP address, but I still don't understand how it know
> where to send or what program it uses..


In voicemail.conf..

fromstring=The Asterisk PBX  
    ; Change the From: string
serveremail=asterisk(atsign)domain.com  
    ; Who the e-mail notification should appear to come from
mailcmd=/usr/sbin/sendmail -t  
    ; You can override the default program to send e-mail


Note: "fromstring" & "serveremail" are translated into "The Asterisk PBX" <asterisk(atsign)domain.com> in your email "From:" address.

---- section of email header
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:04:28 +0200
From: The Asterisk PBX <asterisk(atsign)domain.com>
To: Soren soren(atsign)domain.com
Subject: New VM (1) - 2:04 long in mailbox 100 from "Joe User" <12345678>
Message-ID: Asterisk-1-100-2792(atsign)asterisk.domain.com
----

On your server you install/setup/configure sendmail and have it point to your normal mailserver as relaymailer, this way you can control who gets what from your normal mailserver.

As fas as I remember, the only thing I changed in /etc/var/sendmail.cf was:

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmail.domain.com

to enable relaying via mail.domain.com. 

It may not be the most secure way to do stuff, but I have everything behind NAT and Firewall with SMTP traffic only allowed to/from my regular mailserver.

-- Soren