[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail Changes

[Nathan Bowyer]

On 10/21/05, Sean Cook <scook at kinex.net> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> > bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sherwood McGowan
> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 3:45 PM
> > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail Changes
> >
> > You know, I was thinking I was going crazy... I've had that issue, and
> > another issue where whenever someone called one of our customers, the
> > customer would get 4 to 5 blank voicemails.... Still haven't tracked that
> > one down.
> >
> > Sherwood
> >
> >
> >       A while back I found that with the current voicemail system, the mwi
> > would show that their was voicemail before the recording of a message was
> > complete.  If the user went in to the voicemail system, they would get an
> > empty message and the message would be lost.
> >
> >
> >
> >       Has this been fixed in the beta? Or is it on schedule for 1.2?
> >
> >       Regards,
> >       Sean
> >
>
> I am sure it is related... there needs to be a maildir like storage for
> voicemail so that these race conditions do not occur.  Voicemail on
> recording, needs to be written to a tmp directory then moved into the
> appropriate area upon completion.
>
> Sean
>

I just ran into this today, on 1.2.3 with Polycom IP 501 phones. 
Message was from a potential customer looking for a PBX too... imagine
that embarrassment :)

Anyone know how to get this resolved?

Thanks,
Nathan