asterisk users - Feb 2006 - SV: Re: Fromstring when sending e-mail on recievedvoicemail

Just one more question. In /etc/passwd there's a line with
"asterisk" and "added by portage" in it. Can I just change
this without screwing up everything? Or is there a command to change user info
or something? As you can see, I'm not so good in Linux.

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Sendt: 21. februar 2006 14:54
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Emne: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Fromstring when sending e-mail on recievedvoicemail



Arne Morten Johansen wrote:
> Hi. I'm having trouble controlling the user info when sending e-mails
> from asterisk via sendmail to a Microsoft exchange server.
> 
> When I receive the email the sender is always
> "asterisk@TheDomainISpecify.com" and the name of the sender is
always
> "Added by portage for asterisk". I want to change both
sender-address
> and the name of the sender.
> 
This is actually picked up out of /etc/passwd by default AFAIK. In 
voicemail.conf you can change the "serveremail" and
"fromstring"
settings, although I think this is only in 1.2.x.

Hope this helps.


-Barry Flanagan
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Arne Morten Johansen wrote:
> Just one more question. In /etc/passwd there's a line with
"asterisk" and "added by portage" in it. Can I just change
this without screwing up everything? Or is there a command to change user info
or something? As you can see, I'm not so good in Linux.
> 

Yes,  'usermod -c "New Asterisk Description" asterisk' should
do the trick!

-Barry Flanagan

Hello Arne,

Arne Morten Johansen, 21.02.2006 (d.m.y):
> Just one more question. In /etc/passwd there's a line with
"asterisk"
> and "added by portage" in it. Can I just change this without
screwing
> up everything? 
You can change these entries except from the number at the beginning
of the line.
> Or is there a command to change user info or something? 
> As you can see, I'm not so good in Linux.
This number I mentioned before is the numerical User ID. While human
beings deal with names the (UNIX-like) system only deals with numbers
and identifies users by their numerical UIDs.

Regards,
Christian

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