[asterisk-users] Newbie questions about Voice mail

[Dean Collins]

Hi Brian,
I'm sure some other people will give you better answers but quick
answers are;

1/ Depends on volume of message leaving/collection, is it in a single
location? Multiple locations with multiple time zones? 

Estimate the number of voicemails left per hour and reply with this.


2/ retrieve either via deliver to email or dial in to a number to
collect voicemail via phone (or collect and play via a website)

How are the retrieving their voicemail now? Do you want to replicate
this for ease of replacement as near as possible?


3/ Not sure what you mean by tie in?

4/ Sure, how do you have this configured at the moment? Why not
replicate voicemail group delivery in the same format?



 
Cheers,
 
Dean
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of bdk at unb.ca
> Sent: Saturday, 4 November 2006 11:54 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Newbie questions about Voice mail
> 
> 
> I am totally ignorant about actually using asterisk for any purpose. I
> have read some of the docs but not all. I am currently doing a
telephone
> audit for my company and one of the issues is voice mail. We are
spending
> quit a bit of money with our telco for voice mail services and I was
> wondering about using asterisk as just a voice mail system. We are not
> quite ready to move to a full VOIP system yet but if I can get this
system
> in place the VOIP will follow.
> 
> Could I get all 3000 phones (on 2 sites) or a large subset set to have
a
> call forward no-answer feature set to call a number that would be
answered
> by asterisk's voice mail.
> 
> If so:
>     1. what hardware do I need to handle 3000 phones?
> 
>     2. how would users retrieve their voice mail?
> 
>     3. how does one tie voice mail into an e-mail address? Are their
ways
>        to do bulk updates for several thousand new users every year?
> 
>     4. is there a feature what we call talk mail where you set up a
group
>        of phone numbers and send the same message to all of them?
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> .....TIA
> ........Brian Kaye
> ...........UNB
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