[asterisk-users] voicemail call back loop

[Steve Edwards]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Steve Edwards wrote:

> Use 'mailcmd' in voicemail.conf.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, 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?

Mailcmd?

Also, storing programs that aren't AGIs in the AGI directory doesn't sound 
like a 'best practice' candidate to me.

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