I am the ISP. ;-) I'll have to look into that smarthost deal as there is no reverse DNS at this time (my upstream's server times out).
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Mail Server > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Mike Hammett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I need to setup a small mail server on a local network. It only needs >> SMTP >> ability as it's just so Asterisk can send out emails. The machine has >> sendmail installed. My primary mail server seems to be rejecting the >> messages. Some research says something isn't configured properly. What >> do >> I have to do so the outside world accepts emails from my Asterisk box? >> It >> is behind a NAT. > > Does your ISP provide an SMTP server you can use? If so, it's usually > easiest to set that up as a "smarthost" and tell sendmail to send > through that server. If this isn't an option, you need to make sure > that your asterisk server has a valid publicly-available DNS record > (and reverse DNS). That's most likely the reason the remote server is > rejecting these emails. > > -erik > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users