[Asterisk-Users] Re: Voicemail storage in DB

[James H. Thompson]

Would it make any sense to store the voice mail formatted as a email msg in a Maildir directory
structure.
Then you could also retreive them with an email client.

Jim

James H. Thompson
jht at lava.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos at jhcloos.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Voicemail storage in DB


> >>>>> "James" == James H Thompson <jht at lj.net> writes:
>
> James> You could use NFS with the Maildir alogrithm or
> James> something similar to avoid the need for locking.
>
> Here is an(other) idea if anyone is looking for a project:
>
> When using a db for the meta data, there is no need for the filenames
> to have the message number in them.  As such, one can use a mix of the
> ${UNIQUEID}, (the hostname or ip if a networked fs), and any other call
> details of interest as the filename.  Or, for even nearer certainty of
> collision-proof-ness¹ you can use the base64² of the sha hash of some
> entropy and the call's ${UNIQUEID} for the filename.
>
> The message order can be kept in the db table with the rest of the
> meta data.
>
> -JimC
>
> ¹ (don't you love neologisms)
> ² be sure to use a filesystem-friendly version of base64
>
> -- 
> James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos at jhcloos.com> <http://jhcloos.com>
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