Related to the actual cause of the problem, I apparently was testing some SMTP stuff a while back and disabled my rule to block all SMTP outbound on my network, then forgot to turn it back on. That rule is enabled again, so now waiting to see when it gets hit to find out what the hell on my system is sending spam.

But, this still does not resolve the MS problem with the white listing until the CBL drops off.

The one feature that I really loved with 3CX was the incredible ease of setting up soft phones over a VPN. They do that beautifully.

@JaredBusch said:

Great news of course, but I just do not know if I can trust them to keep it up to date.

I'd be curious to know that too, especially after your adventure with yum updates and going from Elastix 2.4 to 2.5.

Digging through my notes I also have a note that Cox had to switch from a Atrica to Alcatel SBC. At least that was their claim. In the end they didn't swap the box and instead made changes to the existing Atrica.

Any question like this would technically be dependent on the PBX in question and could not be answered generically. That being said, I do not know of any system where this would cause a problem.

@scottalanmiller Yes... Everything works fine when I dialed in and pointed inbound route to an extension, rings and audio is perfect. Web interface, logs, Asterisk functions, modules loaded everything works fine. This is what confuses me the most. Unfortunately I cant just erase the entire server and start from scratch.

@scottalanmiller Ok, I think I got it. Per http://bugs.elastix.org/view.php?id=2549:

Starting with PHPMailer v5.2.7, the default HELO hostname is not set anymore to 'localhost' if not supplied on the Hello() function... This generates that the Elastix remotesmtp configuration checker ends up sending an empty HELO/EHLO command, which makes Gmail (and probably many other SMTP servers) really unhappy.

A possible solution would be to modify /var/www/html/modules/remote_smtp/libs/paloSantoEmailRelay.class.php on line 156:

if(!$smtp->Hello()){

change to:

if(!$smtp->Hello(getHostname())){

If you are using the Multi Tenant version the location is /usr/share/elastix/apps/remote_smtp/libs/paloSantoEmailRelay.class.php

Changed that and it worked. However, whenever I create a new organization and the email is sent to the "admin", I never receive anything... what could it be now? Any ideas? Thanks!

Yes, the number of people who are out there looking for "whatever is called Elastix" is way more than enough to keep the website and brand name around. Elastix has a huge presence in South America and in LATAM countries in general alone.

Sounds like.... fun?

@scottalanmiller Can I borrow your password for a few weeks? I need to watch Game of Thrones after I finish the books, lol.

@scottalanmiller said:

OH okay. I think maybe someone responded to you about your setup or something and then it looked like there had been a question that there wasn't. Thanks for clearing that up.

you are welcome

He is referring to this philosophy, above and beyond direct patching concerns:

Why We Reboot Servers

I also noticed if I used the *78 to activate DND/*79 to deactivate DND, I can't reverse DND from the soft button because the phone assumes it's already in the desired state. I can activate (on) DND, then turn around and deactivate it.

Just something to keep in mind, in case anyone was wondering.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Thanks - I only used it because I've seen it used other places.

Might be used some places I haven't seen. But in case someone is searching, they would search on FreePBX, not FPBX, I assume. Just in case others are looking for information later.

I can just picture someone saying "I can't get FPBX to work with my OBFN using a VM on ESXi running on OBR10 local disk." And it makes me chuckle a little.

@thecreativeone91 said:

What the Adavantage with Pbx in a flash? That's the only one I haven't used. I've mostly used FreePBX (and some straight up asterisk)

The PBX in a Flash team also has a lot of nice extra features baked in and some that you can add (Traveling Man is a good example).

PBX in a Flash existed long before FreePBX had a distribution of its own. Obviously, PIAF uses the FreePBX GUI just like Elastix.unli,e Elastix, they do not wrap everything around in their own GUI. All that PIAF does is add a quick and dirty landing page to let you access the various tools directly from one place.

You basically need to know more to truly admin a PIAF system well.

It is also heavily focused on security.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Oh, tricky. It is called Elastix MT and the "3.0" monicker has been retired. That is VERY confusing.

@scottalanmiller said:

I don't look at the site very often. First I've seen the MT monicker.

I've told you this before in another thread.

I missed that the name changed too. I knew that the products had split.

@MattSpeller said:

@Aaron-Studer said:

You are crazy, but I notice stuff like this too 🙂 Maybe I am crazy too? o_0

Valuable skills for pen testing. $0.02.

True that...

@thanksajdotcom said:

You always have the weirdest issues...

That's because he only reports the issues he can't resolve.
😉

One way another, GUI or not, that start screen is butt ugly. Functional but.....