[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail as an email attachement

[Goran Skular]

>On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:22:52PM -0500, Ben Brown wrote:
>> I have configured the voicemail.conf file as per the wiki to email
>> voicemails as an attachment. I cannot find any instructions/locations to
>> set the outgoing server login information. Furthermore, I can get no
>> emails from asterisk. Can anyone point me to the next step to setup the
>> attachment of voicemail messages to an email?
>
>Set up a "sendmail". Or basically: an MTA. Any linux distro comes with
>at least one (postfix seems to be the preffered choice nowadays). Which
>one do you use?
>
>There are a bunch of programs that provide /usr/sbin/sendmail but don't
>spool the result. Check msmtp, ssmtp, masqmail and nullmailer. There are
>probably others.
>
>The downside is that messages that have, for some reason, not been
>delivered in the first shot (e.g: due to some transient network error)
>will be dropped rather than queued.


I was playing with mta, but this is so complicated, specially if you are on
dynamic ip address, so it is much easier to use smtp for sending mails..