<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James R. Stevens</b> <<a href="mailto:jstevens@athensdistributing.com">jstevens@athensdistributing.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>Going over the needs of any PBX that replaces our current
system (working toward Asterisk) and have VM functionality question.<br><br>Currently when someone leaves a voice mail for a sales
person (Who is in the field) the system takes the VM and then in turn dials
over a POTS line and pages the sales person notifying them of a VM (Does not
deliver the message-just notifies)</p>
<p> Is this possible with Asterisk? </p></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Yes but usually we find better solutions for people if we know what is the motive behind it :) Throw away the old system and the old way of doing things.
<br><br>If your salesforce has GSM mobiles you can replace the provider's voicemail with Asterisk voicemail (for both the mobile & desk phones) and even use the mobile's MWI. If your salesforce uses smartphones you can just integrate their voicemail with it. For example I get all the voice messages to my email which is pushed to my Windows Mobile 5 device and I can listen to the WAV attachments no matter where I am. Working on integrating it on the backend with IMAP so that no matter where you read messages from they are all marked as read and all the MWI turn off (imagine you listen to the voicemail on your mobile via email and the VMWI on both the mobile and the desk phone turn off).
<br><br>Phone alerts seem antiquated but maybe you have good reason to do so. Either way with a very simple script you can do what you desire. Its the "externnotify" option.<br></div><br></div><br>