emailing voicemail messages in asterisk on slug

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I would like to enable emailing voicemail messages on my asterisk set
up. I have connected an SPA3102 connected to a dect phone, a soft phone
on my pc and a softphone on my pda. All these work. I have a couple of
outgoing sip services, and they work, including pstn termination. So
everything is great ... but I cannot get the voicemail to email to work.

I have verified sendmail is installed. It is in opt/sbin and starts at
boot. I have tried to test it but I am a linux and telephony newbie and
the instructions don't make any sense to me at all.

I have modified sendmail.cf to include my relay server on the DS line
as per instructions i found on an excellent set up site.

http://nslu2-voip.blogspot.com/2007/12/setting-up-voicemail-to-send-to-
email.html

I have been at this for days and still cannot get it to work. I gave up
on sendmail and followed the instructions on

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Asterisk?from=Unslung.Asterisk

I tried to ipkg install esmtp. This threw up 3 errors about files
already being installed. I was becoming very exasperated but thought I
would add the esmtprc file to opt/etc anyway.

Following this I received an email from the PBX but the time
information was all mixed up and it had been sent an hour earlier. It
has not worked since.

Any ideas what I can do to work out how to make this work?

Red

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--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "redgshost" <redgshost@...>
wrote:
>
> I would like to enable emailing voicemail messages on my asterisk
set
> up. I have connected an SPA3102 connected to a dect phone, a soft
phone
> on my pc and a softphone on my pda. All these work. I have a couple
of
> outgoing sip services, and they work, including pstn termination.
So
> everything is great ... but I cannot get the voicemail to email to
work.
>
> I have verified sendmail is installed. It is in opt/sbin and starts
at
> boot. I have tried to test it but I am a linux and telephony newbie
and
> the instructions don't make any sense to me at all.
>
> I have modified sendmail.cf to include my relay server on the DS
line
> as per instructions i found on an excellent set up site.
>
> http://nslu2-voip.blogspot.com/2007/12/setting-up-voicemail-to-send-
to-
> email.html
>
> I have been at this for days and still cannot get it to work. I
gave up
> on sendmail and followed the instructions on
>
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Asterisk?
from=Unslung.Asterisk
>
> I tried to ipkg install esmtp. This threw up 3 errors about files
> already being installed. I was becoming very exasperated but
thought I
> would add the esmtprc file to opt/etc anyway.
>
> Following this I received an email from the PBX but the time
> information was all mixed up and it had been sent an hour earlier.
It
> has not worked since.
>
> Any ideas what I can do to work out how to make this work?
>
> Red
>

I have managed to answer my own question by picking up some
information from a nerdvittles page.

http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=216

I followed the advice to telnet nerdvittles on port 25 using the
following in a command line prompt. I did this on windows

telnet nerdvittles.com 25

The message I got back was that my isp blocks port 25 to stop
spamming. I removed the :25 from the end of my hostname in the
esmtprc file created following the instructions in

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Asterisk?from=Unslung.Asterisk

and it all works.

Maybe this will help someone else. It turns out port 25 is a port
commongly used for spamming and so many isps just block it.

Red