Chapter 5. Setting up the E-mail Service

In this chapter, we will configure Unified Communications' most known feature: Voicemail to E-mail. We will also configure our Elastix server as an e-mail server in order to be able to send and receive e-mails through it. The recipes that we will cover are as follows:

  • Elastix's e-mail internals
  • Sending an e-mail message from the command line
  • Configuring the remote SMTP–setting up a Gmail relay account
  • Setting the domain and configuring the relay option
  • Adding e-mail accounts
  • Controlling adverts using the e-mail service with the webmail interface
  • Filtering unwanted messages
  • Creating e-mail lists
  • Setting vacation messages

Elastix's e-mail internals

When we install Elastix by default, it comes with a program named Cyrus-IMAP. ...

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