>Always download programs directly from the homepage or from another >reliable source. Don't just grab programs and scripts from everywhere. > >But why not just set mailcmd in voicemail.conf? > >Also, quoting the homepage: > >> Why not use sendmail? >> Sendmail is a large and complex mail server. Installing this kind of >> mail software on servers (unless it's a mail server) is more of a >> security risk than its worth. > >Not if it only listens on localhost or doesn't listen at all. The >codebases of sendmail is indeed known to be a source of many security >breaches, but exim, postfix and qmail are not so. Most distros come with >either postfix or exim by default nowadays. > >> Not to mention it can be a real pain >> messing with configuration files and such. Systems need another simpler >> way to send email from the command prompt, and sendEmail provides this >> functionality. Its a simple, direct way to send email without the >> overhead of other conventional email software. > >Most of the pain is caused due to management of messages in the queue. >Other types of pain are due to messages routing. Routing issues can be >easily solved by sending basically all mail to a remote host (excpt, >maybe, some system messages). > >However, if the system is disconnected from the net for a while what >will you do? lose all voicemail messages? (and get just ugly warnings >in the logs as a reminder) > >Also note that there are quite a few programs that could use a >sendmail-compatible interface. cron sends its output using mail. So are >many other programs. If you don't provide a sendmail-compatible >interface (even if it one that does not queue, something like >nullmailer) you'll have to reconfigure other parts of your system as >well. > >And worst of all: you won't be able to send mail with mutt. The horors!
I completely agree! This is only a work-around.. there are much better methods involved with sendmail which is really powerfull and thus really complicated to configure. The most difficult part is not on * server side, but on relaying server side which must be configured to allow relays only from authorized sites.. I had no success with that, even with some keys and similar solutions which I tried, so I gave up and start using sendEmail. But, I will for sure migrate to sendmail when time for that comes, and I strongly suggest it to everyone. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users