[Asterisk-Users] Re: Voicemail storage in DB

[James H. Thompson]

No one solution is going to be best for everyone.
It would be nice if there was a clean interface for voicemail storage so
it was easy to plugin whichever scheme best fit your requirements.


Jim

James H. Thompson
jht at lava.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Capouch" <brianc at palaver.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Cc: "Shumard Kenneth Charles" <ksh4248 at saintjoe.edu>; "Tony Braner" <abh4028 at saintjoe.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Voicemail storage in DB


> Matt White wrote:
> > James H. Thompson wrote:
> > 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > As an extension of this thought, how about going one step further
> > and storing the voicemail on an imap server directly?  It would
> > remove the whole storage question and allow storing on a remote
> > system.  The tools in the WU-IMAP c-client package would be
> > pretty useful...
> > 
> 
> Two of my students are working on this very project right now.
> 
> Some thoughts/caveats:
> 
> One design constraint that is mostly enforced in the asterisk code is 
> that it run standalone (I think the mpg123 dependency is the sole 
> exception) and there was very strong sentiment that anything we do NOT 
> require the installation of a whole IMAP suite.  So that complicates 
> things somewhere between a little and a lot.  Basically the task is to 
> design a maildir type entity that can be completely manipulated within 
> the asterisk application itself.
> 
> We're still not coding it heavily, but my sense is that the real gotcha 
> is going to lie in the IVR access routines.  They'll have to be mapped 
> into IMAP-space, as I see things right now, and in looking at the code 
> that's already there, that isn't going to be a trivial thing.
> 
> There is also the split between the UW orientation (keep the files in 
> the maildir owned by the user they're sent to) and the cyrus orientation 
> (lock down the IMAP store and require all access to pass through a 
> server agent).
> 
> I think the maildir approach is the Correct One, but the path thither 
> appears to be a least minorly studded with complexity.
> 
> My HO, of course.
> 
> Thx.
> 
> B.
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