[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail2

[The Traveller]

Hey Mark,

Great work!  Here are some suggestions and differences I noticed:

- When the "s"-option is passed to the Voicemail2-app, it not only
doesn't play the recording help-message, but also doesn't play the
beep.  I suggest to alway play the beep, or add an extra option
to toggle it independently.  On a side-note, the description of
"Voicemail2" still suggests that you can't use the "s" together with
other options, which I'm happy to see is no longer the case there.

- When exitting VoicemailMain2, the "goodbye"-prompt is not played.
I'm not sure if this is intentional or not.

- It would be nice to have an option during / after playback of a message
to hear the "envelope" of the message.  This should include the time and
date it was received, the caller-ID of the sender, if available, etc.

- Maybe build in an option to allow voicemail-users to send messages
to eachother, from VoicemailMain2?

- It would be really helpful to be able to configure the permissions
(mode and maybe user / group as well) of anything created in the
voicemail spool-directory, if possible on a per-mailbox basis.  In the
current situation, you almost don't get around running "vmail.cgi" as
root, patching "app_voicemail.c" to change the permissions or running
a cron-job to chmod / chown the files regularly.  I think many people
here would love to see such an option, as I've seen the permission-
problem mentioned here frequently.

- The current VoicemailMain2 allows unlimited failed login-attempts to a
mailbox.  I suggest adding a configurable limit.


That's it for now.



     Grtz,

        Oliver

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:17:39 -0500, Mark Spencer wrote:

> Asterisk Users:
> 
> I've been working hard on app_voicemail2 which is an enhanced scalability
> version of app_voicemail.  Specifically, its features are:
> 
> 	 * Highly improved internal architecture (maybe someone else can
> 	   actually code on it)
> 	 * Foot print for getting mailboxes from DB (for Vonage)
> 	 * Segmentable mailboxes, allowing you to truly multihost
> 	   voicemail for multiple companies
> 	 * Reads voicemail.conf only on startup and reload
> 
> I'd really like people to help bang on it by replacing VoiceMail and
> VoiceMailMain in your config with VoiceMailMain2 and VoiceMail2 and try to
> make sure that it all works nicely for you.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
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