[Asterisk-Users] Need HELP to put * in use for good cause

[Matthew Marlowe]

You can use AstTAPI to dial out via asterisk and have it record in the
journal, just as you were doing.  If you are non profit Im not sure
why you would want to go with pbxware when you can just do it yourself
with asterisk.

In addition, you don't have to move all the workstations to Linux just
to run asterisk.

Or am I not following something correctly?


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:46:13 -0400, Steve Totaro
<asterisk at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> You can always export an Outlook database as a CSV file which is usually
> pretty easy to import into any other app.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
> stotaro at totarotechnologies.com
> www.totarotechnologies.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "james" <james at jdfogg.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need HELP to put * in use for good cause
> 
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:59, Achilleus Papadopoulos wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > problem: Over time we have amassed a large database of
> > contacts that users share with LDAP/Outlook and when
> > they perform a contact lookup they can easily call the
> > contact trough Outlook with it's built in dialer as
> > every phone is connected to a modem. Moreover, with
> > the Journal enabled the users have a record of the
> > phone calls made to every contact. How can we
> > implement the same or similar TAPI functionality with
> > Ximian Evolution, LDAP, SIP phones and Asterisk? I
> > searched the wiki and mail lists and could not find a
> > definitive way of doing this. Can any one please help
> > me with this?
> 
> I don't know if you can xfer the database from Outlook, but you can
> continue to use the modems for dialing if you use FXS ports on your
> asterisk server. There will be some hardware investment for the FXS
> ports, but you can keep your "plain" phones and modems and not have to
> invest in SIP phones. This also means that a cheeeepo don't-give-a-damn
> phone will be in front of volunteers rather than an expensive SIP phone.
> When they slam the reciever down in disgust or draw on the phone with
> pens it doesn't matter much. Trust me, phones get abused.
> 
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