[asterisk-users] Voicemail retention

[Gordon Henderson]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Asterisk User List wrote:

> Asterisk version 1.2.27
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> We are running into issues where people are not deleting their
> voicemails and it is filling up the storage for voicemail.  We would
> like to run a script that dumps all voicemail that are older than X
> days.
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> Can we simply check the date time stamp on the message directory and
> delete those files older than X days or will that mess up the sequence
> of the voicemails?
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> Anyone have a smooth way of doing this in 1.2?

Standard unix stuff:

cd /voicemail
find . -ctime +7 -type f -exec rm {} \;

However you'll need to do some work to stop it deleting the announcments. 
Left as an excercise to the user because you really ought to know this 
stuff. IMO.


Gordon