Hey all, Out of nowhere, I’m getting these emails from Google emails of failed attempts to deliver email. I’m using Gmail’s SMTP server for voicemail and module updates notifications. My Gmail is getting filled with these: Delivery incomplete There was a temporary problem delivering your mess…

I’m not sure that asterisk@myfreepbxhostname.mydomain.net is a valid email. I’m guessing your question has to do with how do you fix the email recipient of cron emails?

I don’t know how FreePBX handles an external mail server, but this would happen if provides a sendmail program that simply forwards everything to the external server, without attempting to do local delivery of local addresses. Generally linux programs that want to send mail, other than the big mail…

@david55 You’re correct. It sounds like there are two issues going on: The email recipient is misconfigured on the cron email The keep_alive.php script is missing from the sangomaconnect module.

Thank you all for the replies! asterisk@myfreepbxhostname.mydomain.net is obviously masked for privacy, but my domain does not have mail configured. I’ve removed sangomaconnect module, but emails are still being sent, some delayed, and some failed. I guess that Gmail will keep trying for quite som…

The asterisk part is almost certainly obtained by translating the owner for the relevant cron file to it symbolic way, in the normal Unix/Linux way (i.e. using /etc/passwd). The domain name is probably taken from /etc/hosts. It will be trying to email the owner of the file, assuming that email …

This is an extract from “man 5 crontab”, for Debian, but other Linuxes are likely to be similar. I’m assuming you are getting the default behaviour: In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of running commands in ``t…

I’ve tried to find where to set MAILTO, but with no luck. My email setup Debug on System Admin module is full of bounced emails and the same message repeats every 5 minutes. My IP is banned. Does anyone know where asterisk@myfreepbxhostname.mydomain.net is stored? After the latest module update it…

Assuming that you have the cron daemon that matches the man page I used, you put it at the start of the file you displayed in your last post. You would need to use the -e, rather than the -l, option. I can’t guarantee that it will expect a full internet email address, as this sort of thing pre-dat…

[image] david55: there is almost certainly a way of defining mail aliases so that asterisk at the local machine gets translated into a usable internet email address. I’d suggest looking into this: http://www.postfix.org/aliases.5.html although, as I say, I haven’t used it myself.

I quick scan of the results of googling “freepbx mail aliases” suggests there may be some useful information there.

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sorvani (Jared Busch) July 30, 2021, 6:26pm 14

You were told the right way to fix things. That is to use normal postfix settings instead of a bludgeon in the cron file.

There are even examples here on the community.