asterisk users - Apr 2006 - voicemail use external smtp server for sendingmail

I had the same question, and I want to make sure I'm clear.....  This
implies to me that Asterisk itself doesn't use SMTP, but rather dumps a
message into some directory that Sendmail on the same box will see and
process?  I have no problem getting Sendmail to use a smarthost, but am
I understanding the Asterisk part of this properly, or is there a way to
get Asterisk to DIRECTLY use a smarthost, so that Sendmail doesn't have
to be running on the local Asterisk box?

Thanks!
-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: C F [mailto:shmaltz@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 11:02 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] voicemail use external smtp server for
sendingmail

Yes, just configure your sendmail to do it.

On 4/13/06, nik600 <nik600@gmail.com> wrote:
> is it possibile to set up an external smtp server for the relay to the
> users of the mails?
>
> thanks
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Asterisk actualy uses the sendmail as you would in the shell. It is up
to sendmail to decided how to process the message, and yes you are
right asterisk is *not* the one making the SMTP connection.
You can't get asterisk to do it directly since asterisk is not
initiating any connections, but submitting it to a program that is, by
default that program is sendmail.


On 4/17/06, Steve Jones <sjones@ftdata.com> wrote:
> I had the same question, and I want to make sure I'm clear.....  This
> implies to me that Asterisk itself doesn't use SMTP, but rather dumps a
> message into some directory that Sendmail on the same box will see and
> process?  I have no problem getting Sendmail to use a smarthost, but am
> I understanding the Asterisk part of this properly, or is there a way to
> get Asterisk to DIRECTLY use a smarthost, so that Sendmail doesn't have
> to be running on the local Asterisk box?
>
> Thanks!
> -Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C F [mailto:shmaltz@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 11:02 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] voicemail use external smtp server for
> sendingmail
>
> Yes, just configure your sendmail to do it.
>
> On 4/13/06, nik600 <nik600@gmail.com> wrote:
> > is it possibile to set up an external smtp server for the relay to the
> > users of the mails?
> >
> > thanks
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