[Asterisk-Users] Dedicated * voicemail server

[John Todd]

At 9:27 AM -0500 12/2/03, Richard Alexander wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>>  admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Low, Adam
>>  Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 7:58 AM
>>  To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>  Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dedicated * voicemail server
>>
>>  Hey All,
>>
>>  I've started to try and distribute the functionality of my single *
>server
>>  amongst a few varying servers. The issue I have is that when splitting
>out
>>  the voicemail portion onto a dedicated server I am no longer able to
>>  inform the voicemail application (when call originated from a
>different
>>  box) if the call hitting the voicemail server was sent there because
>it
>>  was unanswered or if the phone was busy. I'm not sure if there is
>>  something within IAX that can pass this information on from one *
>server
>>  to another or if there is another solution ?
>>
>>  Rgds,
>  > Adam
>  >
>[snip]
>
>You could add an initial digit based on whether it was a busy or no
>answer forward, use the extra digit to determine the message played on
>the VM server and just strip it back off to get the mailbox number.
>
>Email me direct if that isn't clear enough.


Mark suggested using "language" and encoding some variables into that 
field.  Ugh.  Ugh.  Ugh.

That brought up another interesting idea, about which I've started a 
new thread on -dev already...

JT