Asterisk configuration for voicemail emails through GMail SMTP server not working

Question

I am trying to configure Asterisk (running on AstLinux) to send emails when it receives voicemails through GMail's SMTP server, but it is not working. I do not receive any emails, and I get the following error in the Asterisk system log:

Dec 14 02:02:56 donald mail.info msmtpqueue: Mail system is stopped. Use 'msmtpqueue' to display the mail queue.

These are my configuration files (my server is located at donald.example.com)

rc.conf

## SMTP Mail Relay
## This is the SMTP server that all mail from cron, etc. on this
## system will be sent through.  This includes Asterisk VM notifications.
SMTP_SERVER="smtp.gmail.com"
## SMTP_DOMAIN
SMTP_DOMAIN="donald.example.com"
SMTP_HOSTNAME="pbx"
SMTP_TLS=yes
SMTP_STARTTLS=on
SMTP_CERTCHECK=off
## The username and password for communicating with the SMTP server.
SMTP_USER="example@gmail.com"
SMTP_PASS="plaintext_password"
SMTP_AUTH=plain
SMTP_PORT=587

Voicemail.conf

[default]
1111 => 1234,Nick,myemail@example.com,,tz=eastern|attach=yes|serveremail=noreply@server.com|format=wav

What is `msmtpqueue` output? Do you have any other mail related messages in the logfile? — ouranos, Dec 14 '11 at 04:02
`msmtpqueue` outputs the formulated email queue, but nothing else. There are no other messages related to emails in the log file. — nickb, Dec 14 '11 at 04:14
Please accept your own answer so that people know your problem has been solved! — Scrivener, Mar 09 '13 at 16:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '11 at 05:26

From the web interface of Asterisk, I had to modify the SMTP settings in the Network tab, instead of editing the rc.conf configuration file. Once I made the changes under "Outbound SMTP Mail Relay" on the Network tab and rebooted the machine, Asterisk cleared the message queue and pushed all of the queued emails out.

Asterisk configuration for voicemail emails through GMail SMTP server not working

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