simple script, you will not need to create the email again as it will
be already available via STDIN. You only need to look for delivery
destinations (/^To:\s(.*)$/) and use something like Net::SMTP to route
exactly as desired.
Brandon.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ken Rice<krice@rmktek.com> wrote:
> Theres a really simple solution for this... Use the external notify option
> of asterisk to fire a simple shell script that checks the mailbox number and
> then sends the email out appropriately... This will allow you to use smtp
> relays that are not listed in DNS or are even publically available
>
>
>> From: "Brandon B." <brandon@brellsystems.com>
>> Reply-To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>> <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com>
>> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:35:39 -0600
>> To: <trixter@0xdecafbad.com>, Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
>> Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com>
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How do i enter two different SMTP in Asterisk
>> VoiceMail
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Trixter aka Bret
>> McDanel<trixter@0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
>>> 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".
>>
>> The Asterisk voicemail application does not route email message, and
>> like many other programs that create email messages (logwatch,
>> mailman) it passes the emails to a mail submission agent
>> (sendmail/exim with the correct command line arguments) and the mail
>> submission agent submits them to the locally running smtp server which
>> them uses the local configuration or DNS information to route the
>> message properly.
>>
>> "'asterisk does not do that'" -- are you quoting yourself?
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I do know, and I'm not guessing that Asterisk is not using MX records.
>> Since Asterisk is not a SMTP server it will not try to delivery to
>> secondary A records (since there is no such thing) but neither will it
>> try to a secondary MX records.
>>
>> "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"
>>
>> Considering the obvious fact that Asterisk is not a SMTP server and
>> that there is no such thing as secondary A records, who are you to
>> slam Asterisk like this?
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Ultramonkey.org? That is absurd. First, because the situation will not
>> be improved with a highly reliable SMTP transactions since the
>> delivery of Asterisk emails to the SMTP server is naturally to a local
>> SMTP server (i.e. not across a network), and secondly, assuming that
>> software from ultramonkey.org would help distribute or make more
>> reliable outgoing SMTP transactions, the original question stated that
>> two email accounts were involved, so it's unlikely that some kind of
>> multiple server solution is reasonable.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I am 100% confident sendmail, postfix and exim properly handle SMTP
>> delivery issues, so how can you justify calling for functionality
>> within Asterisk to do this same task?
>>
>> Brandon B.
>>
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