[Asterisk-Dev] Remote voicemail box

[Chris Lee]

Robert Jackson wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Christopher Jacob [mailto:chris at jacob-solutions.com] 
>>Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:25 AM
>>To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Remote voicemail box
>>
>>
>>It would be a useful feature if you could define a mailbox 
>>for a sip users to a box on another server.
>>
> 
> An alternate example would be for scalability.  You could 
> Then use one * box for voicemail another one for sip and 
> Perhaps another one for pstn gateway services.  This setup
> Would be nice for a large scale deployment where we can have
> Multiple boxes performing each task.
> 
> It probably wouldn't be too hard to modify things to use 
> Something like:
> 
> mailbox=[Mailbox Number]@[context]:[Hostname | IP Address]
> 
> Just my .02 cents worth.
> 
> Robert Jackson
That will work but I believe that asterisk desperately needs a user 
abstraction layer if it is to become properly scalable.
Things like mailboxes etc should be user(virtual extension) related not 
physical extension related.
Ideally if a user logs on in the office or via the PSTN calls to their 
extension should end up with them and in their voicemail if they are not 
available.

Something like
mailbox=mailboxlookup(${NumberCalled})

with a user login attaching the users virtual extension and mailbox 
(with location) to a physical extension/device.

Chris Lee