[Asterisk-Users] How to find out if a new voicemail exists

[Hadley Rich]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:21, Sean Cook wrote:
> Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
> > I would like to see if during a call a new voicemail was recorded. I want
> > to send a SMS to mobile phones if someone recorded a message on our
> > voicemail system.
> >
> > I can use VMCOUNT to see if there are new messages in the Inbox but this
> > will result in new SMS being sent even if the caller hangs up during the
> > Voicemailpromt, at least if there are still unread/unheard messages in
> > the inbox.
> >
> > Is there some option or variable I missed or is this a feature request?
> >
>
> I believe you can use the externnotify to accomplish this...

Here[1] is a small, untested script that does something similar to what you 
are asking. Maybe you could modify it to you needs.

HTH

hads

[1]http://astug.org.nz/pipermail/users/2005-November/000022.html

-- 
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
		-- Rudyard Kipling