[asterisk-dev] Understanding Voicemail Storage

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 08:54, Alistair Cunningham wrote:
> 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.

You know, I could pooh-pooh Maildir or I could rave about Maildir,
and that doesn't get app_voicemail one step closer to using Maildir.  If
you really want Maildir, please code it.  Yesterday.

-- 
Tilghman