[Asterisk-Users] Re: Forward Voicemail to remote server?

[Noah Miller]

Hi Are and Matt -

>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Of course, what I really want is an asterisk VM system where user
>>> accounts are transparent across many servers, and VM's can be shuffled
>>> around between the servers as a configuration option in voicemail.conf.
>>> I wish I could code and knew Objective-C!  Maybe I should submit a
>>> feature request.
>>
>> Why don't you use realtime voicemail with the thing for storing messages
>> as blobs?

Well that's just plain... Well... Logical ;-)

I guess I was being lazy and trying to avoid implementing realtime across
all our servers just to satisfy the whims of one user.  Since that user does
happen to be our CEO, and since it would help realize my dream of
transparent users across all our servers, well heck, you've talked me into
it.


> Matt Riddell is right again. (He always is) :-)

It does seem that way!  Thanks Matt.

 
> You just add MySQL replication. It is easy to set up and allows you to have
> voicemail in as many locations you want.
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-howto.html

Ahh.  I would have been fumbling around trying to do this the wrong way for
a long time. Thanks Are!


Thanks,
Noah Miller