[asterisk-dev] Understanding Voicemail Storage

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:05:47PM +0100, Alistair Cunningham wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> >Incorrect.  A new or moved voicemail is created at the last slot,
> >not at the first slot.  Existing voicemails stay in the same order,
> >from the oldest placed to the newest placed.  Note that this is the
> >order in which they were placed into the subfolder, which is usually
> >(but not always!) in chronological order.
> >
> 
> This reminds me of a topic I meant to bring up but never did.
> 
> In some future version of Asterisk, it would be very nice to have 
> voicemail message file names be a unique identifier that never changes 
> for the message. This would make software that manages these files, such as:
> 
> 1. Web interfaces.
> 
> 2. Software to replicate mailboxes between Asterisk machines, keeping 
> track of which files have been deleted, etc, for purposes of high 
> availability.
> 
> 3. Software to synchronise mailboxes with IMAP, Outlook, etc.
> 
> more robust.

Maildir?

The imap storage goes at least a long way towards that goal.

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