[Asterisk-Users] "Defragmenting" mailboxes

[Chris Albertson]

IMAP would work as would an NFS mounted maildir.  But I still
would prefer a DBMS based store to support some voicemail features 
such as.

1) get all message from a given caller

2) Forward a voicemail to a "group"

3) Implied by #2: ability of users to define and name "groups"

4) Querry if any member of a group has left a message.

5) get only "recent" messages

6) delete messages lder than N days

For all of the above a simple SQL query would do the trick
The user interface could be either menues built in extensin.conf or
web based. or a Java ap using JDBC.

The DBMS method would scale to population of a large city.

A"layerd" design the allows for various types of stores would be
best as a DBMS for a home office is silly.



--- Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com> wrote:
> > >Once you go this route, you can ignore the local filesystem
> problem and
> 
> > But you still want handset playback, so you'd want the ability to
> get the
> > "next" message from the mailbox.  If you still store a local copy
> you
> > haven't solved the defragment problem.
> 
> Why store a local copy?  You get prev/next message by ctime or mtime,
> which 
> time IMAP server provides for you effortlessly.  I've certainly not
> had any 
> problems with message ordering in the order they were created on my
> IMAP 
> server...
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew
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