[Asterisk-Users] Speaking of Outlook

Florian Overkamp florian at obsimref.com
Tue Sep 23 00:03:52 MST 2003


At 15:06 22-9-2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anybody have a reasonable solution for an Outlook MAPI plugin that 
>works with asterisk? At very least, I would like Asterisk to push incoming 
>call information to the computer, which should then open an Outlook form, 
>launch a web browser, etc. Beyond that, it would be cool to have Outlook 
>initiate outgoing calls.
>
>Shouldn't be too difficult, and I know some of you are working along 
>similar lines. Outlook itself is only an example. What I'm looking for is 
>a simple "incoming call, launch a browser with the callerid in the query 
>string" type app for windows.

Actually I seem to remember there is a MAPI plugin for the Pingtel 
softclient that does a number of these things. However, it seems pretty 
strict toward number formatting etc. (for recognition)

I suppose one could also make one for the IAX clients ?

Florian




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