[Asterisk-Users] Forward Voicemail to remote server?

[Anthony Rodgers]

Could he not get his voicemail forwarded to his email account?

On Nov 18, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Noah Miller wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I've read through the various posts to this list regarding this, but I
> haven't really seen an answer.
>
> We have a user (our CEO) who has phones in two different offices, and 
> we'd
> like him to be able to get all his VM in either office, regardless of 
> which
> office was originally called.
>
> We currently have this set up with IAX forwards in the dial plan.  
> Only one
> server really stores the voicemails - the other server just calls to 
> the
> "central" server to receive VM.
>
> This setup doesn't work very well, though.  Our internet connections 
> are
> notoriously unreliable.  We'd like to have our CEO be able to get all 
> his VM
> even if an internet connection is down.  Likewise, We'd like callers 
> to be
> able to leave him voicemails even if an internet connection is down.
>
> I've thought of rsyncing together the VM directories on each server.  
> What
> happens, though, when both servers have new messages named msg000.*?  
> Does
> the older one get overwritten?
>
> My idea instead is to use externnotify to run some kind of script to 
> forward
> the vm to another server.  I'm sort of at a loss as to where to start,
> though.  I guess I could rsync the VM files to the other server, and 
> run a
> name check to rename the VM files if there's a duplicate name.  The one
> problem there are that my coding skills are seriously bad.
>
> Anybody have any ideas or done something similar?
>
>
> Thanks!
> Noah Miller
>
>
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