[asterisk-users] How does IMAP notify Asterisk that I've read a message?

[Barry L. Kline]

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Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> In 1.4, use the "checkmwi" option in the [general] section of sip.conf to
> specify how often the SIP channel should poll for message count.  In 1.6,
> the message waiting has been changed to use a notification system by
> default, which should spare most systems a great deal of extra work.
> However, you will still be able to set the "pollmailboxes" option in
> voicemail.conf to specify that external programs modify the mailboxes and that
> Asterisk should poll the mailboxes (old behavior) to check whether the status
> of voicemail has changed.

Hi Tilghman.

Thanks for your response.

I just posted another message to the list concerning this.   The long
and short of it was that I need to call an external program to turn MWI
on and off on my legacy PBX phones.   The script I wrote creates a call
file and then Asterisk calls the PBX and sends the MWI on/off DTMF codes.

The externnotify parameter in voicemail.conf specifies a program to call
when something interesting happens in the VoiceMail[Main] application.
 Apparently that script does not get called when Asterisk does its poll
and notices a change.  I just wanted to confirm that behavior before
embarking on a kludge to take care of my issue.

Thanks!

Barry



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