[Asterisk-Users] Re: Forward Voicemail to remote server?

[Noah Miller]

Hi Anthony -

>> We have a user (our CEO) who has phones in two different offices, and 
>> we'd like him to be able to get all his VM in either office, regardless of 
>> which office was originally called.
>>
>> My idea instead is to use externnotify to run some kind of script to 
>> forward the vm to another server.  I'm sort of at a loss as to where to start,
>> though.  I guess I could rsync the VM files to the other server, and 
>> run a name check to rename the VM files if there's a duplicate name.  The one
>> problem there are that my coding skills are seriously bad. 
>
> Could he not get his voicemail forwarded to his email account?

I guess I should have mentioned that I did offer this option for him.  He doesn't like it, though.  He gets 200-400 emails a day, and he has a hard enough time keeping them straight.  He also is often forced to get his emails over slow links, so attaching the  voicemails is not the best option.

I also just thought of maybe using a call file to somehow send the VM messages on to the remote server.  I'm not sure how I would go from a wav file to a an iax call, though.  I really need an asterisk app like "ForwardAsVM(soundfile)".

Of course, what I really want is an asterisk VM system where user accounts are transparent across many servers, and VM's can be shuffled around between the servers as a configuration option in voicemail.conf.  I wish I could code and knew Objective-C!  Maybe I should submit a feature request.

I'm still hoping some resourceful asterisk guru has figured out a workaround for this.

Thanks!
Noah