[asterisk-dev] Understanding Voicemail Storage

[Alistair Cunningham]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 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.
> 

Maildir would be ideal.

Alistair Cunningham,
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