VM to Email (from) name change?

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

I have Asterisk 1.8 running on CentOS 6.0 with voicemail to email. My email client is ssmtp.
When I leave a vm I get the email from Asterisk the incoming email address is correct, but the from says “root”. How do I change the from name?
When I sent email directly from ssmtp it works correctly so I know it’s something in voicemail.conf file.

Here is a copy from my web email client when I get a vm to email message :
From: [color=#800000]root[/color] [voip@mydomain.com]
Subject: [PBX]: New message 14 in mailbox 7002

2

That is the name of the linux session who send the mail. So Your session sender is root, that field correspond for the user description you can modify with usermod -c

3

Isn’t -c the comment switch?

How can I change the session user to admin? Does that require running the asterisk service with another account?
If so, how do I change that?

4

I would not advise running Asterisk non-root given your apparent level of Unix knowledge.

If you used sendmail, you could override the From: address, but even that isn’t the squeamish. You appear to be using a minority MTA, which may well have traded configuration simplicity for flexibility.

5

Is my Linux knowledge that obvious :smiley:
The username showing isn’t that big of a deal.

This gives me the opportunity to learn CentOS and Asterisk.

Thanks for the help.

6

I have a setup similar to yours here is what i have done:

In /etc/passwd i changed root’s name, this will change how all of root’s email appears, run this:
chfn -f “****” root changing the asterisks to what you want root’s email to send as (name), you will still login or su with “root” you are chaning root’s entry root:x:0:0:*****:/root:/bin/bash

also in ssmtp make sure you have these two lines:
FromLineOverride=YES
Root=email@address.here

and in voicemail.conf:
fromstring = blah blah blah
emailsubject = you have a new blah blah