[Asterisk-Dev] Voicemail option parsing

[Brian West]

Who said remove it?  You could still have that but you didn't even 
notice what I said about making it a channel driver did you..

Dial(Voicemail/box at context)

/b

On Apr 15, 2005, at 7:35 PM, Chris A. Icide wrote:

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> I can't imagine why we would want to remove the functionality that is
> voicemail contexts.
>
> Having contexts in the voicemail function is a huge benefit.  I'm
> using it
> in multiple dial plans.  If it was removed, I would have to abstract
> the
> voicemail box from the user and do some fancy dialplan work to link
> the two.
>
> Lets look at it like this.  I have a class 5 switch (or a costly
> softswitch) and I've chosen to use asterisk as a voicemail server for
> my
> services.  I route all calls that are not answered or busy from the
> switch
> to a single asterisk voicemail system for voicemail.  I have several
> different companies that have identical internal centrex extensions
> and
> want to have the same voicemail id's.  Now I just host a different VM
> context for each company served and I'm golden.
>
> Without contexts, I would have to make the mailbox identifier a
> meaningless
> serial number, and implement a mapping system from the caller to the
> unique
> serial id of their voicemailbox.
>
> - -Chris
>
>
>
> On 05:05 PM 4/15/2005, Brian West wrote:
>>
>> Ok with that why not create a voicemail channel driver and
>> Dial(Voicemail/blah)
>>
>> /b
>>
>> On Apr 15, 2005, at 5:30 PM, BJ Weschke wrote:
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>>>  Because iax and sip IDs are usually hidden behind dial plans and
>>> registrations that the end users don't see.
>>>
>>>  One of the nice thing about unique per context vs. unique per
> system
>>> mailboxes right now is that VoiceMailMain doesn't end up having
> any
>>> conflicts if you setup a separate general DID for each context to
> get
>>> into their mailbox when dialing in externally.
>>>
>>> On 4/15/05, Brian West <brian.west at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
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