[Asterisk-Users] Voice Mail Notification

[Robert Jackson]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Boger Jr [mailto:mboger1 at midsouth.rr.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:14 PM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Voice Mail Notification
>
>
>Hi,
>
>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.

While I have not specifically done what you are attempting 
I'll give an example of how I cope with a similar situation.

First, create a simple script that generates a call file.  
This could be via any language, but I have only used Perl and 
simple shell scripts.  The script needs to use the variables 
passed to it and create the call file.  Make sure you create 
it in a temp directory and move it to 
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing as * is very aggressive in 
generating these calls, and will attempt to place the call 
before the file is written otherwise.  Specify that the call 
needs to go to your cell phone number then if answered should 
be connected to an extension you create in the Dialplan.  To 
make all of this work properly use the externnotify variable 
in voicemail.conf which will execute the script you created 
before.  The rest is trivial using dialplan logic.  Simply 
make the extension you referenced and have it do whatever you 
want.

* voicemail.conf info -
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+config+voicemail.c
onf
* externnotify sample - http://mikecathey.com/code/vmnotify/
* Auto-dial out -
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-print.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out

Hope this helps,

Robert Jackson