[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail forward to a remote server?

Dominique Kull atlantic at taridium.net
Tue Sep 21 09:14:10 MST 2004


I was thinking that there could be a way to do this through IAX, without 
re-encoding of course. You could for example specify a special extension 
on the remote server which would then pickup the stream like a regular VM.

Dominique

Kris Boutilier wrote:
> Agreed, however these rely on foreknowledge of the remote end configuration
> and are non-transactional. I was thinking more along the lines of VPIM
> (http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Voice+Profile+for+Internet+Mail).
> 
> Consider a large-scale private networking scenario - it would be very nice
> to have a fall back voicemail system running on the PSTN/Private Network
> bridges that, in the event of a transport network or remote end outage,
> could catch targeted incoming calls with a generic message, record a
> voicemail and then pass it off to be delivered by some other existing
> infrastructure. Ie. Large volumes of SMTP mail can be delivered in
> circumstances where RTP protocols would be rendered useless such as over a
> congested, temporary consumer-grade satellite connection.
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John Baker [mailto:JohnB at listbrokers.com]
>>Sent: September 21, 2004 8:41 AM
>>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail forward to a remote server?
>>
>>
>>Why not just use rsync or netcat?  There are about a dozen different 
>>ways to do this.
>>
>>John
>>
>>Kris Boutilier wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I was having this thought also and I couldn't find any 
>>
>>implementations.
>>
>>>Likely it could be done using the sendmail 'pipe to shell' facility,
>>>combined with some kind of delivery receipt system and a 
>>
>>few minor hacks on
>>
>>>app_voicemail.c
>>>
> 
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