Voicemail to e-mail

[randy7376]

You didn't mention if you recreated the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file using the procedure you tried earlier. If that's not been done, you're still in the same boat.

If you have recreated sendmail.cf, then we can move forward on your problem.

The next step is to tell sendmail who we want to forward mail to, and whether or not that host requires authentication.

As an example: At home, all of my outgoing mail from my LAN passes through an internal server which is then passed on to Charter Communications mail server. In this instance, I have sendmail acting as an e-mail client.

On the other side, I use fetchmail to pull my mail from Charter's server every 10 minutes and let spamassassin and sendmail process it to a local mail queue.

EDIT: Have you had a look at this thread? This one is gmail-centric, but the same principle applies. Will look at this tomorrow... it's been a long day.

 

[dbaddour]

Thank you so much, I will look at this tread.
Not changing the subject or any, i am facing another problem now seriouse. I cannot get the PBX GUI to show. I can SSH to the server, try to login using the GUI, ask for Pass and user, Fine but nothing load on the screen. Nothing..
The DNS is fine, the Gateway still the same... Webmin config are the same butno gui. IPtable is off, Fail2bain turn off. I really need this as the option in the BOX for dial by name aslo stoped working, when select it hang the caller..... I am getting the heat from the bosses

Please and thank you.. Much appreaciate your help.

 

[randy7376]

I saw the other thread you started. I replied in that one. Check to see if Apache is started.

 

[dbaddour]

Hi Randy,
thank you again this issue been resolved and in the other thread.
Back to my original issue, i have checked the /etc/mail sendmail.cf exist and it is little over the 58k. I haven't ran the m4 on it since i did that the last time before re-installing sendmail again it did empty that file to 0k.
idea?
at the same time the e-mail still with the same error

 

[dbaddour]

It seems like a solution/resolution day.
This issue is been fixed now, the solution for this problem was to follow:
- sendmail-cf was not installed on my system, must install it and so install m4 "neither one were existing"
- after the installation done, run m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf while in the /etc/mail folder
- test it by using this: echo "Subject: Test" | /usr/lib/sendmail -v [email protected]

After all this is done, Since we are using Microsoftonline services for our exchange. the e-mail address must be [email protected] cause anything is translating to the outside must have the .microsoftonline.com
You should be good to go.
i will help anyone if you need anything within this category.

Cheers and Special Thank you to Mr Randy.

PS: Randy i have another question for you on different subject do you want me to open another thread?

Cheers

 

[dbaddour]

Randy,

I got the same issue with another system that one has the Silver flavor installed. none of what we did on the 1st system worked. checking the mailq i got that error:
p5UHjB8W029802 1466 Thu Jun 30 14:45 MAILER-DAEMON
(Deferred: Connection refused by pbx.dyndns.org.)
<[email protected]>

iptable is off so is the fail2bain, the sendmail.cf exist and around the 58k generated and restart the sendmail...

 

[randy7376]

Is pbx.dyndns.org the real name of the machine you wish to connect to? I can see that this resolves to an actual machine running SMTP out on the Internet. I'm not going to post a bunch of details about this, but does biermann or a host in Germany ring a bell?

If so, you would need to tell pbx.dyndns.org that you're authorized to relay through it.

You mentioned above that you're using microsoftonline.com and hosted Exchange. You really should be directing your systems using the smarthost option so that sendmail directs their mail to Exchange. If you're not allowed to relay by IP, you will probably have to set up client authentication (the thread I linked to earlier) to authenticate with the Exchange server.

Let's get on with it... Be sure you back up your original sendmail.mc file first before proceeding!

Open your configuration file:

# vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Append or modify macro that read as follows :

define(`SMART_HOST',`domain.microsoftonline.com')

Replace domain.microsoftonline.com with your actual SMTP server address being hosted at Micrsoft Online. If line contains word, dnl remove the dnl word. Same as before, regenerate a new sendmail.cf config file with m4 command:

# m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

Restart sendmail service:

# /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

Don't forget about my questions above, either!

 

[dbaddour]

Randy,

pbx.dyndns.org is not the name of the machine that want to connect to. SMTP name is [email protected]

 

[dbaddour]

Hi Randy,'

in this box i am getting this error:
(Deferred: Connection refused by mail.global.frontbridge.com.

any idea?

 

[randy7376]

Is mail.global.frontbridge.com your smarthost you have defined in sendmail.mc?

Again, it has to know you're authorized to relay (by IP or via some form of authentication).

Make sure sendmail.cf has your smarthost defined. It should be somewhere around line 101 and look like this except with the info you added earlier in sendmail.mc:

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmail.example.net

If it's not there, double-check sendmail.mc and make sure you don't have any typos.

I'm not sure how up-to-date the "Bat Book" is, but you might want to get a copy of O'Reilly's sendmail book for reference. Mine is a bit dated now (1997 - Second Edition). It's a good resource on sendmail that has hopefully been updated since then.

 

[dbaddour]

Hi Rand,

Totaly understand your point, i have been comparing all the files that i have on one server that we have it working ealier last week and this one that causing the issues. every file in the /etc/mail are the exact same. what i noticed the working one it has under /etc/mail the folder of relay-domains (nothing in it) but the trouble one doesn't.
i have checked for Typos and so on nothing at all...

mail.global.frontbridge.com doesn't exist on the system at all, no preference in any of the system folder. My relay SMTP is
[email protected]

I have removed and rebuild the sendmail again as we did with the other one with the same results.. not sure if anywhere on the system i can force it to use that relay
Thank you
if you need any diag i am willing and much much appreciate your help ALWAYS thanks

Cheers