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Question:<BR>
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What would it take to provide some integration between a PIM (eg Evolution), and Asterisk?<BR>
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I guess features, like being able to point to an email address in your email, and right click<BR>
and select dial, and maybe get list of numbers in a pop up if the email address is associated<BR>
with several different phone numbers, select the one you want, and... well, asterisk is contacted,<BR>
a request is passed to dial a given number and connect with a certain local extension (yours). <BR>
I guess you'd have to have option in Evolution for such: the IP number of an asterisk server, <BR>
the name of the extension the user would like to use to talk to a party... (Zap/5? Sip/name?)<BR>
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I guess asterisk would have to figure out that (Zap/5) is associated with a certain context,<BR>
open up a channel to it, then act like that extension just dialed a number, and let the normal<BR>
dialplan take care of it from there... I don't know if the user would have to pick up the phone to<BR>
start the process, or whether the user would have to wait for the phone to ring, and be bridged.<BR>
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Question is: can astman and its protocol handle this sort of thing? How do far more experienced<BR>
asterisk folks view such integration? <BR>
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murf<BR>
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