[Asterisk-Users] MWI not working - using seperate vm and callrouters:

[Olle E Johansson]

Tim Connolly wrote:
> 	Thanks for the suggestion. That sounds very easy and not much code
> involved. Wow.. I just tested that by touching "msg0000.txt" and it works
> great!
> 
> Thanks again,
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Aaron Daniel
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:56 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] MWI not working - using seperate vm and
> callrouters:
> 
> There are a few methods of doing this without rewriting code... On our
> system, we have 2 asterisk servers that actually run the phones, a voicemail
> server, and a gateway... whenever a call comes into the voicemail server, we
> have an 'h' extension that checks to see if the person does in fact have
> voicemail, and then touches or removes a file in the phone's mailbox on the
> two primaries, which cause the MWI light to come on.  It's probably
> considered half-assed, but it works like a charm for us.

This is a cool solution that should make it into some form of cookbook 
or tips and tricks page somewhere - maybe the wiki?

Aaron - Thanks for letting us know.

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