[asterisk-users] voicemail call back loop

[vip killa]

What happens if there are more than 1 message and the user does not listen
to all messages though?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Steven Howes <steve-lists at geekinter.net>wrote:

> On 6 Apr 2011, at 17:46, vip killa wrote:
>
> I have "externnotify = /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/vm_notify.pl" so that
> when someone is left a voicemail it will call the person's mobile phone and
> prompt them with the new message. The perl script simply originates a call
> to a persons mobile phone and connects it to their voicemail using
> VoiceMailMain. Problem is when user hangs up from checking their messages,
> it runs the externnotify again causing an infinite loop. Has anybody
> encountered this problem or is there an option to not have it run
> externnotify after checking messages?
>
>
> Look at the docs. Externnotify sends mailbox + mailbox count. Make your
> script exit if it's 0 messages.
>
> S
>
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