[asterisk-users] Custom Voicemail emails

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:54:39 Steve Anness wrote:
> So here is the deal. I have an Asterisk server here at work that I
> have recently taken over and the boss is wanting the server to do a
> lot of things that it didn't do before. I have already configured much
> of what he wanted including a voice messaging line where anyone can
> call in and leave a message and then he would get that message in his
> email. However, the boss wants his email subject to read something
> like "This is an urgent message through the HISG voice messaging
> system" so he knows that that message came through that number as
> opposed to his voicemail box that already gets forwarded there. The
> default is the "[PBX]: New Message 10 in mailbox 0307". At second
> glance he would know which voicemail box is his line but he wants
> things to be different and so I am trying to make that happen.
>
> I know there is the 'emailsubject' option. I haven't tried this yet
> but my concern is that it will set the subject the same on every
> single box (obviously what the command is designed for). I can I
> customize a voicemail message so that if something comes in on our
> 0307 line it has a certain message and then we might get a message on
> 1942 line that we want a different subject.

Currently, there is no such capability.  Coding it would not be very
difficult, however.  I would suggest using the per-mailbox settings and simply
adding the option to code an email subject per mailbox, and then default to
the generic subject, if one is not otherwise specified in the mailbox.

-- 
Tilghman