[Asterisk-Users] Max messages in VoiceMailMain

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 30 January 2004 23:18, Derek wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:24 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Friday 30 January 2004 22:14, Derek wrote:
> >> We just switched the company over to * today and have run up
> >> against a problem I didn't foresee. Comedian voicemail has a limit
> >> of 99 voice-mails per mailbox, even though the naming scheme would
> >> allow for 10,000. Our company accepts orders by voicemail during
> >> the night with a usual night consisting of 150 - 200 voice-mails.
> >> Has anyone had this problem and what did you do to get around it?
> >
> > Increase the #define near the top of app_voicemail.c, recompile,
> > and reinstall.
>
> I was actually recompiling with that set to 999 as I read this:)
>
> Maybe the default setting should be higher than 100 in the source
> code in case someone else runs into this? I don't think it would
> hurt. Or better yet add a setting in voicemail.conf?

It cannot be easily changed at runtime and upping the limit increases
the amount of memory used when checking voicemail.

-Tilghman