[asterisk-users] email notification to external email address

[Matt Gibson]

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lyle Giese
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:43 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] email notification to external email address

Brian Simpson wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a problem. The company I work for has been bought out by a bigger 
> company. The employees are in the process of changing all their email 
> addresses to the new company name. I have my voicemail.conf file setup 
> to email users when they have a voicemail message. The mail server that 
> was used to notify everybody is on the same network as the Asterisk PBX. 
> Now I have to change all the emails in the voicemail.conf file to the 
> new company's email addresses. The email server for them are external of 
> the network that the Asterisk sits on. I have change a couple to test 
> but the email notification is not happening. Any idea what is going on 
> and how to resolve. Is there something else that I need to do to get the 
> emails to work? I am new to the Asterisk and have been forced to take 
> over for someone that has left the company. I do have telephony 
> experience with Legacy systems.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>


As a temporary work around while you resolve the larger issue, you could
install something like mailx or ssmtp to relay over any smtp server you
currently have functioning access to. 

Thanks,
Matt