<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Nevermind, I found the answer on the wiki:<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><I>Want to run an external program whenever a caller leaves a voice mail message for a user? This is where the externnotify command comes in handy. Externnotify takes a string value which is the command line you want to execute when the caller finishes leaving a message.</I></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><I>Note: see an example of an external notification script here.</I></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><I>Note: This command will also run after a person who has logged into a mailbox exits the VoiceMailMain() application.</I></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><I><BR></I></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><I>The way it works is basically any time that somebody leaves a voicemail on the system (regardless of mailbox number), the command specified for externnotify is run with the arguments (in this order): context, extension, and number of voicemails in that mailbox. These arguments are passed to the program that you set in the externnotify variable.</I></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">But, it would be nice to have one of the arguments be what event triggered the script. Like if it was a message was left, or some logged out of VoicemailAdmin</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Forrest Beck</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jonforrest.beck@gmail.com">jonforrest.beck@gmail.com</A></DIV><DIV>www.shift8.biz</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Forrest Beck wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I have googled and can seem to find the answer to this one.... Does anyone here have experience with externnotify in voicemail.conf?<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></SPAN><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The sample states that it will run when a message is delivered and retrieved. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Does asterisk pass any arguments to the script?<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks.<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Forrest Beck</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jonforrest.beck@gmail.com">jonforrest.beck@gmail.com</A></DIV><DIV>www.shift8.biz</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>