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

[Matt Riddell]

On 14/02/2009 7:11 a.m., Russell Bryant wrote:
> 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.

Maybe instead of polling it could use the inotify interface - just
started using it here (awesome) and noticed it is now being used for
spool files.

-- 
Kind Regards,

Matt Riddell
Director
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