asterisk users - May 2007 - Bug in voicemail module of Asterisk 1.4.2?

Dear users,

I think I may found a bug in the voicemail module of Asterisk 1.4.2!

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@domain.real. 
Unfortunately Asterisk is always sending these mails with the sender 
asterisk@hostname regardless of the serveremail option. I was able to at 
least change this behavior to asterisk@hostname.domain.local by changing 
the line

192.168.100.1   hostname.domain.local  hostname

in /etc/hosts

to

192.168.100.1   hostname.domain.local

but not any further. I don't think this is a bug of the MTA (exim4) 
because sending mails via mutt does work, the emails are sent by 
username@domain.real then.

Sven Jacobs wrote:
> Dear users,
> 
> I think I may found a bug in the voicemail module of Asterisk 1.4.2!
> 
> 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@domain.real.
> Unfortunately Asterisk is always sending these mails with the sender
> asterisk@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@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. 



/Per Jessen, Z?rich

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