{"id":1494,"date":"2015-02-19T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.237.127\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2015-04-09T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T21:22:35","slug":"setting-the-server-domain-in-elastix-correct-for-scripted-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Setting the server domain in elastix correct for scripted email"},"content":{"rendered":"

We run many scripts on customer servers to email cdrs, backups etc, one problem with some mail servers is the mail gets rejected as it comes from root@elastixserver.yourdomain.com by default to fix this is simple and only takes a few lines.<\/p>\n

Postfix MTA offers smtp_generic_maps parameter. You can specify lookup tables that replace local mail addresses by valid Internet addresses when mail leaves the machine via SMTP.<\/p>\n

Open your main.cf file<\/p>\n

# vi \/etc\/postfix\/main.cf<\/code><\/pre>\n
Append following parameter<\/p>\n
smtp_generic_maps = hash:\/etc\/postfix\/generic<\/code><\/pre>\n
Save and close the file. Open \/etc\/postfix\/generic file:<\/p>\n
# vi \/etc\/postfix\/generic<\/code><\/pre>\n
Make sure root@elastixserver.yourdomain.com\u00a0change to elastixserver@yourdomain.com add :<\/p>\n
root@elastixserver.yourdomain.com \u00a0elastixserver@yourdomain.com<\/pre>\n
Save and close the file. Create or update generic postfix table:<\/p>\n
# postmap \/etc\/postfix\/generic<\/code><\/pre>\n
Restart postfix:<\/p>\n
# \/etc\/init.d\/postfix restart<\/code><\/pre>\n
When mail is sent to a remote host via SMTP this replaces root@elastixserver.yourdomain.com by elastixserver@yourdomain.com mail address. You can use this trick to replace address with your ISP address if you are connected via local SMTP.<\/p>\n
To set up gmail for delivery look at this<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We run many scripts on customer servers to email cdrs, backups etc, one problem with some mail servers is the mail gets rejected as it comes from root@elastixserver.yourdomain.com by default to fix this is simple and only takes a few lines. Postfix MTA offers smtp_generic_maps parameter. You can specify lookup tables that replace local mail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89,11,7],"tags":[23,27,35,40,51,73,100,77],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elxsupport","category-knowledge","category-technical","tag-asterisk","tag-centos","tag-elastix","tag-freepbx","tag-linux","tag-support","tag-technical","tag-xorcom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5daZy-o6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}