[asterisk-dev] Voicemail "greetings only" feature

[Jeff Peeler]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Florent Dewavrin <
florent.dewavrin at telnowedge.com> wrote:

> Hello !
>
>
> Some days ago, I looked for a "Greetings only" voicemail option
> (http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=68773).
>
> The expected behaviour is to play the user's greeting message and to
> hang up without recording anything.
> This feature, that exists on some PBX, allows users who don't want voice
> messages to easely setup a failover announcement.
>
> So why using the Voicemail application instead of playing a recording ?
> Mainly for simpleness reasons:
> - It gives a unique dialplan entry point to all users (those who wants a
> recorder and those who don't) when they want to configure their greeting
> messages.
> - It keeps the dialplan simple, as the user failover destination is
> always the Voicemail application.
>
> As I didn't find such a feature in the voicemail documentation, my first
> guess was to set the user maxmsg to zero.
> Next I looked more closely at app_voicemail.c and realized that zero is
> not a valid value.
>
> So I wrote a small patch for app_voicemail.c to support maxmsg=0 and act
> as a "Greetings only" VM in the appropriate case.
>
> Questions:
> Is this mailing list the appropriate place to discuss of that feature
> request ?
> Does this feature interest someone ? I hope so :) If true, where should
> I send the patch ?
>

This is the appropriate place to discuss development of a patch. You should
first open an issue on issues.asterisk.org and attach the patch there.
You'll need to sign the contributor license agreement before anybody can
look at your patch. Also remember that the patch needs to be made against
truck All of this information and more resides here:

http://www.asterisk.org/developers

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Jeff Peeler
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