[asterisk-dev] MiniVM and message forwarding

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:14:14AM +0100, Johansson Olle E wrote:
> 
> 3 dec 2008 kl. 00.59 skrev Watkins, Bradley:
> >
> > Off the top of my head, I would say it could be an option to Record().
> > This would have the side effect of potentially being useful other than
> > within minivm, but might be to fine-grained to make it practical for  
> > my
> > original stated purpose.  That said, it would be easy enough and  
> > perhaps
> > I'll add it anyway.
> >
> 
> > It could be and option to MinivmRecord, which would reduce the
> > proliferation of Minivm* applications (which may or may not be
> > considered a good thing or neutral).  This option is also fairly
> > congruent with the current separation between what the minivm
> > applications do versus what they expect a dialplan to accomplish.
> >
> The idea with minivm is to have a larger set of unique apps. Don't  
> hesitate
> to create a new one if your new functionality doesn't fit into the  
> existing set.
> We don't want another huge voicemail app ;-)
> 
> > The last option I came up with immediately was a MinivmForward app.   
> > The
> > primary advantage here is that there might be some chicanery that's a
> > little easier to do in C as oppposed to the dialplan, with the
> > disadvantage that then you're tied to that functionality unless you  
> > want
> > to change the source and recompile (not an issue with me, but with
> > respect to users of the applications).
> I think you need a function to concatenate two recordings, or prepend/ 
> append to
> an existing prompt. Then you need the MinivmForward app - if its' still
> needed. After concatenating the prompt, it's just another voicemail
> to store.

Assuming you use local files as a storage, right?

And what if you don't want to assume that?

> 
> On my wishlist is imap/odbc integration to minivoicemail.

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