> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Van Ostrand
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 10:37 AM
> To: David Fishburn
> Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] RE: setting up asterisk to use an
> SMTP server
>
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 23:04 -0500, David Fishburn wrote:
>
>
> This is the exact issue I am dealing with at the moment.
> I am a novice *nix user.
> Rogers blocks port 25, can anyone post the changes you
> would make to this
> file (and the actual filename) to get me started. I
> have tried googling
> around for a bit, there is a lot of information out there.
>
> TIA,
> Dave
>
>
>
> You need a combination of smart hosting and smtp
> authentication. The trick to this is to use Roger's email
> server and send email through them.
>
> To do this you require:
>
> * Sendmail
> * Sendmail-cf (usually a separate RPM for FC, Red Hat, CentOS, etc)
> * The name or IP address of the Rogers (Yahoo?) email server
> * A login and password to the mail server (referred to as
> mylogin and mypass in the examples.
>
> Rogers support can help you with the latter two.
>
> Now, edit the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and add these lines
> ABOVE the MAILER lines at the bottom, set the SMART_HOST to
> your mail server:
>
> define(`SMART_HOST',`[ssmtp.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com]')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5
> CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash -o /etc/mail/authinfo')dnl
>
> Then create the /etc/mail/authinfo file and add a line LIKE this:
>
> AuthInfo: "U:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "I:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> "P:mypass" "M:PLAIN"
>
> Now edit the /etc/mail/Makefile. Locate the line that begins
> with "all:" and add the file authinfo.db to the end
> (separated by a space of course.)
>
> Now run make "make -C /etc/mail" and restart sendmail
> (chkconfig sendmail on; service sendmail start)
>
> If you also have postfix installed on the system you will
> need to use the "alternatives" command to make sure that
> sendmail is the default mailer. I don't use this enough to
> direct you exactly on this.
John, thank you very much.
These were the exact detailed instructions I needed to get this going.
For other people that may try this, once you have this configured, you can
try sending a test message directly from a terminal window:
su - asterisk
mail -v -s test2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]<enter>
test2<enter>
.<C-D>
<enter>
<enter>
Saves the trouble of creating a message in Asterisk.
Dave
