asterisk users - Oct 2008 - Sendmail for Voicemail

When I send email from my local asterisk machine, my IP address get's
RBL'd.  

Asterisk is my only reason for running sendmail, so to keep it simple, I
tried to make my ISP's mail server a 'smart host' (relaying to a
trusted
mail server) but my ISP doesn't allow ANY kind of relaying these days.  

I imagine there are many like me who are not sendmail experts who want
to send Asterisk Voicemal.  Can someone direct me to the quick, dirty
and secure way to send mail from my asterisk box?  The good news is that
I'm on a Fixed IP on a registered network with working reverse
in-addr.arpa lookups, and as you might have guessed, all mail would
originate from the local host.

Suggestions?
Thanks!

-Karl

You need to implement SMTP-AUTH and log in when sending mail to your
smart host. I have a template for Postfix to do that. Many *nix distros
have Postfix with a sendmail compatible binary in front of it.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.

asterisk-users at kfife.mailworks.org wrote:
> When I send email from my local asterisk machine, my IP address get's
> RBL'd.  
>
> Asterisk is my only reason for running sendmail, so to keep it simple, I
> tried to make my ISP's mail server a 'smart host' (relaying to
a trusted
> mail server) but my ISP doesn't allow ANY kind of relaying these days.
>
> I imagine there are many like me who are not sendmail experts who want
> to send Asterisk Voicemal.  Can someone direct me to the quick, dirty
> and secure way to send mail from my asterisk box?  The good news is that
> I'm on a Fixed IP on a registered network with working reverse
> in-addr.arpa lookups, and as you might have guessed, all mail would
> originate from the local host.
>
> Suggestions?
> Thanks!
>
> -Karl
>
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asterisk-users at kfife.mailworks.org wrote:
> When I send email from my local asterisk machine, my IP address get's
> RBL'd.  
>   
I use msmtp;
http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/



Here is my /etc/msmtprc

account default
host mail.bellsouth.net
auto_from on
maildomain bellsouth.net
syslog LOG_MAIL

/etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf
[default]

1000 => 0000,David Abbott,myemail at bellsouth.net



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your outgoing email on multiple ports to help with the blocking  
problem.  It's $15/year for a limited number of messages.
   Todd


On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:39 PM, asterisk-users at kfife.mailworks.org wrote:
> When I send email from my local asterisk machine, my IP address get's
> RBL'd.
>
> Asterisk is my only reason for running sendmail, so to keep it  
> simple, I
> tried to make my ISP's mail server a 'smart host' (relaying to
a
> trusted
> mail server) but my ISP doesn't allow ANY kind of relaying these days.
>
> I imagine there are many like me who are not sendmail experts who want
> to send Asterisk Voicemal.  Can someone direct me to the quick, dirty
> and secure way to send mail from my asterisk box?  The good news is  
> that
> I'm on a Fixed IP on a registered network with working reverse
> in-addr.arpa lookups, and as you might have guessed, all mail would
> originate from the local host.
>
> Suggestions?
> Thanks!
>
> -Karl
>
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, asterisk-users at kfife.mailworks.org wrote:
> When I send email from my local asterisk machine, my IP address get's
> RBL'd.
>
> Asterisk is my only reason for running sendmail, so to keep it simple, I
> tried to make my ISP's mail server a 'smart host' (relaying to
a trusted
> mail server) but my ISP doesn't allow ANY kind of relaying these days.
So how do you normally send email? How did you send this one?
> I imagine there are many like me who are not sendmail experts who want
> to send Asterisk Voicemal.
One solution would be to switch from sendmail to something you know - but 
I'm guessing you're using some canned asterisk solution which comes with
sendmail?
>  Can someone direct me to the quick, dirty
> and secure way to send mail from my asterisk box?  The good news is that
> I'm on a Fixed IP on a registered network with working reverse
> in-addr.arpa lookups, and as you might have guessed, all mail would
> originate from the local host.
So the fixed IP with reverse DNS isn't helping you get by the RBLs - a lot 
of which "know" the ISP end-user ranges...

Your ISP must allow some sort of email relaying to let you send email from 
your desktop - unless they're forcing you to use a webmail solution?

Do they actively block outbound port 25?

If they genuinely don't provide email relaying, then you might have to 
enlist the services of an indepedant ISP and relay via their servers - 
this will almsot certinly involve some sort of authentication - usually 
SMTP-AUTH, which is very possible in sendmail, but might not work in a 
pre-canned version.

I've used and worked with sendmail for more years than I care to remember, 
but it seems here that the issue isn't neccessarily with sendmail, but 
with your ISP..

Gordon

I ran into almost this exact same problem when I first installed 
asterisk.  My company uses a virtualdomain hosted by our isp.  We'll 
call it mycompany.com for example.  When I first set everything up I 
wasn't able to send any mail from the asterisk server even though it was 
on an accepted IP.  The problem turned out to be that I did not use an 
FQDN along with the e-mail address on the server.  Setting 
servermail=voicemail at mycompany.com in voicemail.conf didn't solve the 
problem so I tried creating an actual mailbox under our virtual domain 
called voicemail.  That still didn't work.  For some reason sendmail was 
still passing "voicemail at localhost" to the mail server.  What
ultimately
solved the problem was setting mailcmd=/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f 
voicemail at mycompany.com in voicemail.conf.  After that relaying worked 
perfectly.

Apparently the account had to both exist under our domain and be passed 
correctly by sendmail.

Good luck,
Brent

asterisk-users at kfife.mailworks.org wrote:
> When I send email from my local asterisk machine, my IP address get's
> RBL'd.  
>
> Asterisk is my only reason for running sendmail, so to keep it simple, I
> tried to make my ISP's mail server a 'smart host' (relaying to
a trusted
> mail server) but my ISP doesn't allow ANY kind of relaying these days.
>
> I imagine there are many like me who are not sendmail experts who want
> to send Asterisk Voicemal.  Can someone direct me to the quick, dirty
> and secure way to send mail from my asterisk box?  The good news is that
> I'm on a Fixed IP on a registered network with working reverse
> in-addr.arpa lookups, and as you might have guessed, all mail would
> originate from the local host.
>
> Suggestions?
> Thanks!
>
> -Karl
>