[Asterisk-Users] Simplified Voicemail app / keeping peace withcohabitants

[Doug Kennedy]

Jay Milk wrote:

>You just put into words exactly what I've been contemplating over the
>last few weeks.  All voicemail systems have pretty much the same set of
>functions, just different keys to access them.  Wouldn't it be great if
>we could configure the voicemail menus and prompts?  If ever I find time
>again (my 2-wk old son is my newest "project"), I'll take a look at the
>sources and see what it would take.
>
Then we could have "skins" to emulate our fave voicemail systems... 
Meridian...
Ericson... etc.

Making digit X do function Y would be easy enough, but there are also some
fine points that could be considered-- for example, to delete a message 
you're listening to:

On meridian VM, pressing "76" during message playback erases the message and
advances to the next message.  7 = message options, 6 = delete message.

On Comedian mail, pressing a key (like 7) advances to the end of the 
message.
You must then hit the key to delete the message again.

On AT&T cell phone VM, you can't skip past a message PERIOD.  Burn your
minutes until the message is finished, then press 7.  I'm sure some 
corporate
business school type figured out that extra revenues generated by a retarded
voicemail system exceeded the revenue lost by ticking off users...

But this sounds like a great idea, switching between systems is beginning
to make my head hurt!