[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk MWI and Realtime

[Matthew Boehm]

Michael Baird wrote:
> I'm testing my asterisk system and the realtime backend. My Asterisk
> build is rather aged, 03/18/2005 CVS. I have successfully moved Sip
> peers and Voicemail boxes to the realtime database backend and this
> works very well except for MWI. I don't seem to be able to get MWI to
> work when I store the voicemail information in a database backend, from
> a flat file it does work fine. I'm using rtcachefriends=yes for my sip
> users, per the WIKI, I'm presuming asterisk can't see these mailboxes,
> and therefore can't poll them to send the alerts when necessary. Is
> there anything that can be done to make this work properly, short of
> going back to a flat file for voicemail.conf?
> 
> Regards
> Michael Baird

We have been using RealTime and Voicemail for quite some time and have 
no problems getting MWI's.

If your source is that old, it might be why the config option isn't working.

-Matthew