[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange Synchronization

[Kris Boutilier]

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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Tim
> Litwiller
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:16 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange 
> Synchronization
> 
> 
> I'm not a programmer - but it sounds to me like you are all 
> making it to hard by transfer the voice files around etc. unless you 
> really have to have the messages stored in the mail server for some reason.
> 
> here is what I would picture
> a outlook plugin that creates the illusion of several folders
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This is good, but just the configuration management process quickly becomes unrealistic for a larger office deployment of, say, 250+ clients. Similarly, a larger organisaion running Exchange presumably has also architected their hardware for it and would get better value from consolidating storage in that hardware - consider someone running an Exchange Server cluster with a SAN behind it... 

Perhaps there really is a need for two tiers of solutions here - the large scale Mailserver-as-backend-for-Asterisk concept presented earlier today by Craig Guy and then a more generic Asterisk-as-backend-for-mail clients using IMAP, some other mail protocol or even a per-mail client custom plug-in as you've suggested.

Just my can$0.02

Kris Boutilier
Information Services Coordinator
Sunshine Coast Regional District