[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and sendmail

[Bill Ford]

Since all the asterisk program needs to do is send mail through smtp,
and since using sendmail for this purpose is a bit like using Jeff
Gordon's racing engine on a bicycle we opted to scrap sendmail and use
msmtp. This is basically just an smtp engine. To our mail server, it
looks just like any other smtp client. It's very easy to set up. After
you have it working from the command line, simply remove the sendmail
startup from init.d, rename the sendmail executable (I renamed mine
sendmail.orig, and it's in /usr/sbin). msmtp installs itself in
/usr/local/bin, so I created a link in the sbin directory to link
msmtp to the filename sendmail in sbin.
(ln -s /usr/local/bin/msmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail). That way whenever a
program calls sendmail, it is in reality calling msmtp. It works like
a charm.

Hope this helps
Bill

On 4/29/05, Chuck Keeter <ckeeter at ufie.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction to configuring sendmail to work
> with Asterisk voicemail and faxes?
> 
> I did  a bit of research on the web but came up more confused that when I
> started.
> 
> It's the basic setup I'm having trouble with, where to add the SMTP and
> login and user name to sendmail to use a smart host in getting v-mail and
> faxes to the people they are going to.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Chuck Keeter
> 
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