[asterisk-dev] MWI issue, and maybe feature request

[Russell Bryant]

Hoggins! wrote:
> It's been said that one can fire MWI by touching a msgXXXX.txt file in 
> the /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/[context]/[voicemailbox]/INBOX. It 
> happen to be unable to achieve this behavior from my Asterisk server.
> 
> So I was wondering if this trick is reproductible on recent versions of 
> Asterisk (mine is 1.6.0.5), since these informations found on wikis seem 
> to be a little old. Is this simple msgXXXX.txt file creation still 
> triggering MWI on registered clients ?

If you're doing this with Asterisk 1.6, you'll need to enable the option 
"pollmailboxes" in voicemail.conf for Asterisk to notice what you have 
done.  Otherwise, it expects that all modifications to the mailbox are 
being done through Asterisk.

See UPGRADE-1.6.txt and voicemail.conf.sample for more information.

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Russell Bryant
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