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

[Matt Riddell]

Noah Miller wrote:
> 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.

Why don't you use realtime voicemail with the thing for storing messages as blobs?

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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