On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 00:21 -0600, Brandon B. wrote: > This is a SMTP question more than an Asterisk issue. Is the DNS > information for these two mail destinations correctly configured? If > not, use your own DNS server with the necessary information or write a > script that will accept the voicemail email with attachment and make > the necessary SMTP connnections. >
does asterisk do it that way or does it look up the first A record it gets and use that and only that ?? If that is the case, and it does not even support MX records then the correct answer would probably be closer to "asterisk does not do that". I really dont know but if I had to guess I would say that its not using MX records, because it wants a smtp server, and given the way other things in asterisk are done its likely that it does not try a secondary A record if the primary is down. You can still trick asterisk by using something similar to ultramonkey.org (although you may not have to go quite as far as ultramonkey would take you) so that asterisk thinks its just connecting to a single host all the time, and if it fails its transparently switched to the backup system. Of course a more elegant solution would be, assuming its not there which is an assumption I did make, to add the functionality to try multiple hosts in order until it gets something resembling a success code (2xx, usually 200), and if it runs out of hosts then queue and schedule an event to try again in some timeout interval until the queue is empty. But hey, for all I know it already does this, I really havent looked and barely read the posts in this thread. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
