First off, thanks to all for your help. I'm still not operational, so I've decided that I'll have to _understand_ what's going on rather than relying on a magic recipe; which isn't a bad thing I guess!
I believe that part of my problem is the fact that my static, external IP address is not mapped to a hostname. This explains why I keep trying to use my IP address. It seems to me that I will have to have a valid hostname stored on some public DNS somewhere so that the external email server (that's currently rejecting the mail) can validate it. Do I have that right? If so, I guess I should arrange for a new sub-domain name, something like call.gesturetek.com and have that mapped to my external IP address? Also will I need to arrange port forwarding of a mail port (port 25 I think) in order to ensure that our external email server can validate the hostname? If that's all right, then I need to ensure I understand what /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network are all about. It seems to me that the HOSTNAME entry in /etc/sysconfig/network defines a hostname for the Linux box, so I may as well use the external DNS name - call.gesturetek.com. Now because Sendmail is sending from localhost, I can simply map localhost 127.0.0.1 to the new DNS name call.gesturetek.com so that Sendmail will use that instead. There was an entry for localhost.local domain in there already which I believe caused all the problems in the first place, perhaps I should remove that one and replace it with call.gesturetek.com? The way I see it, I don't have to do anything with /etc/mail/access. It contains: localhost.localdomain RELAY localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY Or perhaps I need to add an entry for call.gesturetek.com to be in there as well? Do I seem to be on the right track now? Many Thanks, Hugh On 3/20/06, Pete Barnwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 11:59 -0500, hugolivude wrote: > > OK!! That's not what I did.... I've gone back and changed things > > according to what you indicated, thanks for making it so simple to > > folow... > > > > The Asterisk box is on an internal network so instead of > > asterisk.mydomain.com I tried using our external fixed IP address. > > The error messages have disappeared, but I'm still not getting > > email. > > > > Just for fun I changed the email I'm using in voicemail.conf to my > > gmail account and it worked!! When I use our work email though, it > > doesn't work here's the error I see using the 'tail' command: > > So what has changed is that somebody has reconfigured your work email > server to reject mail from domains it can't resolve. It would also > appear that your works email server is giving the DSN in some unknown > format from the log file. > > Easiest way to fix this would be to speak to the admin of your works > email server and get him to add the IP of your * server into the > relay_allow (or equivalent) list. > > Rgds > > Pete > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users