[asterisk-users] Is it possible to dial an automated message when Asterisk receives an email?

[Rafael Bermúdez]

Steve,

Thanks for your advice! You have an interesting point of view.

I shall discuss this with my office partners on Monday.

Thank you both.


PS: In case you wonder, I'm from Argentina, hence my native language is
Spanish

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>wrote:

> Un-top-posting...
>
>
>  On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:39 PM, John Kiniston <john at meatkite.com> wrote:
>>
>
>       You could use a procmail recipe to create a call file and then move
>> it
>>      to the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing directory.
>>      Below is a untested example .procmailrc:
>>
>>      :0:
>>      * ^To.trigger at example.com
>>      | /usr/local/bin/callout.sh
>>
>>      where callout.sh would look like this perhaps:
>>
>>      !/bin/bash
>>      sleep 5
>>      CALL="callout.call";
>>      echo channel: LOCAL/NUMBER at pstn-local > /tmp/$CALL;
>>      echo context: ivr-call-out >> /tmp/$CALL;
>>      echo exten: s >> /tmp/$CALL;
>>      echo priority: 1 >> /tmp/$CALL;
>>
>>      echo mv /tmp/$CALL /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing
>>      done
>>
>>      Again all untested writing by the seat of my pants type stuff.
>>
>
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Rafael Bermúdez wrote:
>
>  John,
>>
>
>  Thanks for your reply. I will test this script.
>>
>
> A couple of comments of the top of my head:
>
> ) If you construct the call file name using the PID you can accomodate more
> than a single event at the same (or really close) time.
>
> ) The 'mv' command has an extraneous 'echo'
>
> ) Pay attention to permissions. Sudo can help if needed. Personally, I
> prefer a restrictive sudo to the blunt hammer of wide open permissions :)
>
>
> --
> Thanks in advance,
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-- 
Bermúdez Rafael
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