[Asterisk-Users] Voice Mail Notification

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On January 13, 2005 10:14 pm, Mike Boger Jr wrote:
> Here's the deal. When someone leaves me a voicemail message I want Asterisk
> to call me on my cellphone by dialing my cellphone number and tell me I
> have a message. Is this possible? Can anyone cite examples? Most commercial
> voicemail systems produced in the last 10 years can do this. Any help would
> be much appreciated.

Yes, it can.  voip-info.org has a great page on voicemail callout scripts.  I 
personally use a variant since asterisk will not call out unless you hit # 
after leaving a message and then 1 to accept it.  My variant just looks for 
files in the voicemail/INBOX directory and generates teh same call file if 
there are messages.

(old messgaes are moved into a voicemail/old directory, so anything in INBOX/ 
is unheard)

-A.