[asterisk-users] Voicemail, SQL & ODBC

[Noah Miller]

Hi Peder -

> Is the storage of actual voicemail messages in a database still limited
> to ODBC?  If so, why?

Yes.  Why? Nobody has developed a voicemail solution that directly
connects to a *SQL database for message storage.


> And is the use of mySQL and ODBC at the same time still a bad idea?  If
> so, why?

ODBC is just a connection to interface with a database.  You have to
run a database like mysql in order to use an ODBC driver.  Can you use
the same mysql database for asterisk configs and odbc voicemail
storage: yes.


> I want to store all of my voicemail stuff in a database so that I can
> give users web access to it, but I don't want to run web services on my
> * server itself.  If it is all in a DB, I can have a web box and a
> separate SQL box and none of it should affect *.

Yes, you can do this.  There are other ways to do this without using
database storage for voicemail (e.g. you could use normal file-based
storage for voicemail and have the webserver connect to the vm storage
on the * server via nfs).


- Noah