[asterisk-users] Bug in voicemail module of Asterisk 1.4.2?

[Sven Jacobs]

Per Jessen wrote:

>> Outgoing email notifications should use a real existing domain (let's
>> call it domain.real) instead of the local domain (domain.local) so
>> that some mail servers won't reject the mails. That's why I've set the
>> serveremail option in voicemail.conf to asterisk at domain.real.
>> Unfortunately Asterisk is always sending these mails with the sender
>> asterisk at hostname regardless of the serveremail option.  
> 
> You fix that in your mail-server with aliasing and/or canonicalising.  I
> think the Asterisk behaviour is correct.  It is similar to receiving an
> email from cron or some other daemon. That is sent
> from "cron at hostname", which is fine for your internal purposes, but if
> you send it out externally, you'll need to map it to a external
> address. 

But then again I don't understand the serveremail option. What is it for 
then?