[Asterisk-Users] "Defragmenting" mailboxes

Steven Critchfield critch at basesys.com
Wed Oct 22 03:20:20 MST 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 05:06, Adam Williams wrote:
> > > >Once you go this route, you can ignore the local filesystem problem and
> > > But you still want handset playback, so you'd want the ability to get the
> > > "next" message from the mailbox.  If you still store a local copy you
> > > haven't solved the defragment problem.
> > Why store a local copy?  
> 
> Speed, and there might possibly be messages in a folder that did not
> come from asterisk - was just thinking how to skip over them.  May not
> be neccesary at all, if asterisk put a special X-Asterisk-Voicemail
> header in all its messages.  Cyrus (don't know about others) supports
> content indexed folders.

You don't need to store these on the normal mail server. You could store
them on a local version. If someone wanted to link it to their email
app, it isn't a big deal to add a second or more server to read mail
from. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>




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