As far as i remember asterisk uses sendmail to send outgoing voicemail emails so maybe that is where u should look.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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