[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6, IMAP Voicemail and externnotify

[Steve Totaro]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Jeffrey Phelps <jphelps at mjlm.com> wrote:
> I too am looking for a way to get the externnotify= script to run on poll events.
>
> Right now, I have a script that runs as a cron job every 60 seconds, but with 150 voicemail boxes, I constantly have at least 40 or 50 instances of the script running at a time because it takes so long to run it through all the mailboxes...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Phelps
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Barry L. Kline
> Sent: Sunday, 23 November, 2008 14:29
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6, IMAP Voicemail and externnotify
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> I have Asterisk sitting between the PSTN and a legacy PBX.  Asterisk is
> doing some IVR work prior to forwarding calls to the PBX and it also
> acts as the voice mail server for the PBX, with Asterisk configured for
> IMAP storage.
>
> When a call comes in and the caller leaves a voice mail, the VoiceMail
> application calls the program configured in voicemail.conf
> (externnotify=).  I use that program to create a call file which then
> turns the MWI on the PBX's phones on or off.   Turning the MWI on is
> fine when voicemail is left and turning the MWI off works great when the
> user checks his/her voicemail using the handset.
>
> My problem is that I want the MWI to be turned off is the user checks
> his voicemail via an email client.
>
> I'm aware of the new IMAP polling* parameters in voicemail.conf, and I
> have them set.   It has become apparent to me that the only time the
> externnotify script is called is when the VoiceMail[Main] application is
> accessed.  It appears that the script is not called when Asterisk polls
> the IMAP server to check voicemail.   Is that correct?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Barry
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Can someone share or at least point me in the direction of these scripts?

Thanks,
Steve T