problems with emailing voicemail

[hugolivude <hugolivude (at) gmail.com>]

Guys,

Thanks again for all your help.  I've updated /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts as per your suggestions:

/etc/sysconfig/network:

NETWORKING=yes

HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain

127.0.0.1  <my external, static IP address> asterisk localhost

/etc/hosts:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    localhost
127.0.0.1  <my external, static IP address> asterisk localhost

But still no luck.  I've also noticed a problem when I boot the
server.  Sendmail along with a number of other processes generate
an errror message.  They're all pretty much the same error message
and same line number so here's an example:

etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit error line 3: 127.0.0.1 command not
found

FWIW, I've included the first part of my etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit below.

I'm stumped.  This was working before, what could have possibly
happened?  Any other ideas on how to fix it before I go and
re-install RedHat??

Thanks,
Hugh

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - run once at boot time
#
# Taken in part from Miquel van Smoorenburg's bcheckrc.
#

# Rerun ourselves through initlog
if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" -a -x /sbin/initlog ]; then
    exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -r /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
fi

# If we're using devfs, start devfsd now - we need the old device names
[ -e /dev/.devfsd -a -x /sbin/devfsd ] && /sbin/devfsd /dev

HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/network
else
    NETWORKING=no
fi
if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ]; then
    HOSTNAME=localhost
fi

. /etc/init.d/functions

# Start the graphical boot, if necessary
if [ "$BOOTUP" = "graphical" ]; then
  if [ -x /usr/bin/rhgb ]; then
     /usr/bin/rhgb
  else
     export BOOTUP=color
  fi
fi

last=0
for i in `LC_ALL=C grep '^[0-9]*.*respawn:/sbin/mingetty' /etc/inittab | sed 's/^.* tty\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/g'`; do
      > /dev/tty$i
      last=$i
done
if [ $last -gt 0 ]; then
     > /dev/tty$((last+1))
     > /dev/tty$((last+2))
fi

if [ "`/sbin/consoletype`" = "vt" -a -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then
   
   echo -n "Setting default font ($SYSFONT): "
   /sbin/setsysfont
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
      success
   else
      failure
   fi
   echo ; echo
fi

On 3/17/06, Colin Anderson <ColinA (at) landmarkmasterbuilder.com> wrote:

if you are using Sendmail, then you have to add a trusted user to /etc/sendmail.cf in the format:

 

Tuser

 

So if the user you run Asterisk under is called "asterisk" then you add Tasterisk to sendmail.cf. Restart Sendmail. Then in voicemail.conf you can set the email address to whatever you want, it's at the top of the config file, I believe.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: hugolivude [mailto:hugolivude (at) gmail.com]

Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:49 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

Wow, Thanks so much for all your help.  I tried Steve's suggestion using tail and found:

from=<root (at) localhost.localdomain >, ...
stat=Deferred: 450 <root (at) localhost.localdomain>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found

So it looks like the sender email is no longer acceptable.  This worked fine b4, so perhaps the ISP taking care of the callees email has changed its policy?  Anyway, I could use a hand on how to fix this.  How do I get Asterisk to use a valid email address rather than root (at) localhost.localdomain?

Many Thanks,
Hugh

On 3/17/06, Steve Jones <sjones (at) ftdata.com> wrote:

Do a "tail -f /var/log/maillog" which will give you a  real-time view of your mail server activity, then while that's running, leave yourself a voicemail.



________________________________

From: Tony Mountifield [mailto:tony (at) softins.clara.co.uk]
Sent: Fri 3/17/2006 10:13 AM
To: asterisk-users (at) lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail



In article <c471e4e30603170705t5e596848laf5a0a490b178b12 (at) mail.gmail.com >,
hugolivude <hugolivude (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running a 1.1 version of Asterisk (a stable build from back in Oct-05)
> running on RedHat 9.0 .  Everything's been great but a couple of days ago, we
> all stopped receiving emails of our voicemail.  There's been no changes to
> our configuration
>
> I bet I'm expereiencing a Linux problem rather than an Asterisk problem, but
> because I know only as much Linux as required to get Asterisk going, I'm
> hoping someone can steer me in the right direction!
>
> Any suggestions where/how to troubleshoot?

The first place to look would be in /var/log/maillog on the box.

Look particularly around the time when a voicemail should have been sent.

Cheers
Tony
--
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Work: tony (at) softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk
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