[Asterisk-Dev] Voicemail option parsing

[Brian West]

But why hasn't this been an issue in SIP and IAX?  ;)

/b

On Apr 15, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Stephan A. Edelman wrote:

>
> That works great within one company, but what if you had multiple
> companies served by the same PBX? I'd like to think that you can setup 
> *
> to have multiple voicemail boxes with the same extension.
>
> Stephan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brian West
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Voicemail option parsing
>
> To be honest mailboxes just like sip peers should be unique on the
> system.  So you could only have one mailbox called 1000 in your system.
>
> We do this with sip.. and IAX why not with voicemail?
>
> /b
>
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Stephan A. Edelman wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure if we can just have a [] section that represents the
>> user's extension, since we could have multiple identical extensions in
>
>> different contexts. That's why I suggested "layering" them. Perhaps,
>> we should refer to a file with all of the mailboxes for that context
>> instead (i.e., a mailbox definition file). I.e.,
>>
>> voicemail.conf:
>>
>> [default]
>> mdfile=mailboxes-acme.conf
>>
>> [othercontext]
>> mdfile=mailboxes-othercompany.conf
>>
>> mailboxes-acme.conf:
>>
>> [1000]
>> blah=asdf
>> blah=adfs
>> context=default
>> password=blah
>>
>> ...
>>
>> If we see the "mdfile" (or whatever keyword), then we assume the new
>> style layout.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> Stephan.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brian West
>> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:07 PM
>> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Voicemail option parsing
>>
>> I think you have the right idea.. I totally agree with that.
>>
>> [1000]
>> blah=asdf
>> blah=adfs
>> context=default
>> password=blah
>>
>> Maybe a voicemail3 option.
>>
>> /b
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 15, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Stephan A. Edelman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I need to add alpha pager support to the voicemail notification of *.
>>> When someone leaves a voicemail message in a particular user's
>>> mailbox, I want * to page that user and provide the same information
>>> that it sends in the e-mail notification (i.e., who the voicemail
>>> message was from, duration, etc.)
>>>
>>> I looked at using the "externnotify" option and call Hylafax's SNPP
>>> client, but the externnotify is global to the context and isn't
>>> called
>>
>>> with the particulars (CID, etc.) that I need. I also want to
>>> configure
>>
>>> it on a mailbox-by-mailbox basis.
>>>
>>> I looked at the voicemail.conf file and thought about adding
>>> "externnotify" as an option, but I'm really not happy about the huge
>>> list of options that are already there.
>>>
>>> For example, my existing voicemail.conf:
>>>
>>> [default]
>>> 4221 => XXXX,Stephan Edelman,stephan at newace.ca,,
>>> tz=eastern|attach=yes|saycid=yes|dialout=fromvm|callback=fromvm|revie
>>> w
>>> =
>>> y
>>> es|operator=yes|envelope=yes|sayduration=yes|saydurationm=1
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I propose we change this to:
>>>
>>> [default]
>>> 4221 => saemailbox
>>>
>>> [saemailbox]
>>> name=Stephan A. Edelman
>>> password=XXXX
>>> email=stephan at newace.ca
>>> tz=eastern
>>> attach=yes
>>> callback=fromvm
>>> review=yes
>>> saycid=yes
>>> ...
>>> externnotify=/usr/sbin/sendpage -q -p sae "*: VM ${VM_MSGNUM} from
>>> ${VM_NAME} ${VM_CALLERID}"
>>>
>>> This allows per mailbox notification and cleans up the whole option
>>> list. Any comments?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Stephan.
>>> -
>>> Stephan A. Edelman, B.Eng.
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