[asterisk-users] Setup ReceiveFax(), fax2mail, mime-construct - but now Sendmail :(

[Andrew Thomas]

You don't really need to use any local MTA if you use the sendEmail
script.

I got it from - http://www.caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

This actually works by 'talking' directly to any SMTP server - even
remote ones (I use our Exchange server for our e-mails).

HTH
Andy
	  	

-->>  -----Original Message-----
-->>  From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-
-->>  bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Messina
-->>  Sent: 20 December 2008 02:47
-->>  To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
-->>  Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Setup ReceiveFax(), fax2mail,mime-
-->>  construct - but now Sendmail :(
-->>  
-->>  On Friday 19 December 2008 20:24:11 sean darcy wrote:
-->>  > Using 1.6 on Fedora Core 9 I'm trying to receive faxes. I've got
-->>  this far:
-->>  >
-->>  > [incoming-fax]
-->>  > exten =>
-->>  >
-->>
s,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d%H%
-->>  M)}-0
-->>  >${CALLERIDNUM}) exten => s,2,ReceiveFAX(${FAXFILE}.tif)
-->>  > exten => s,3,Hangup()
-->>  > exten=>h,1,System(/usr/local/bin/fax2mail --cid-number
-->>  "0${CALLERIDNUM}"
-->>  > --cid-name "home fax" --dest-name "admin"  --dest-email
-->>  "${admin_email}"
-->>  > -f  "${FAXFILE}")
-->>  >
-->>  > which all seems work well on the CLI. No errors.
-->>  >
-->>  > fax2mail uses mime-contruct to send the fax by sendmail. That
didn't
-->>  work.
-->>  >
-->>  > No email. /var/log/maillog:
-->>  >
-->>  > Dec 19 21:04:53 asterisk sendmail[2628]: mBH2mWvQ006043:
-->>  > to=<admin at myco.com>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain> (0/0),
-->>  > delay=2+23:16:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6640305,
-->>  > relay=mx01.1and1.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
timed
-->>  out
-->>  > with mx01.1and1.com.
-->>  > Dec 19 21:04:53 asterisk sendmail[2628]: mBH2mWvS006043:
-->>  > to=<admin at myco.com>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain> (0/0),
-->>  > delay=2+23:16:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6640312,
-->>  > relay=mx00.1and1.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
timed
-->>  out
-->>  > with mx00.1and1.com.
-->>  >
-->>  > I've avoided MTA's like sendmail for a _long_ time. So I need
help.
-->>  >
-->>  > 1. Is this the right list to try to resolve this? If not, which
-->>  list?
-->>  >
-->>  > 2. postfix seems to considered much easier to configure than
-->>  sendmail.
-->>  > Do I install postfix? If so, will this work out of the box?
-->>  >
-->>  > 3. If sendmail, what's the magic configuration?
-->>  >
-->>  
-->>  i'm still working on this, but take a look at
-->>  http://messinet.com/viewvc/asterisk-fax-gw/trunk/
-->>  
-->>  currently, i use postfix, which seems easier to me to configure
than
-->>  sendmail
-->>  
-->>  --
-->>  Anthony - http://messinet.com -
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