[Asterisk-Users] Notification of new voicemail by various methods

[John covici]

OK, what on Earth is a call file, where do you put such a thing and
what's in it?

Thanks.

on Friday 09/02/2005 Johann(johann.hoehn at ecommerce.com) wrote
 > That would actually be kinda easy to do.  Create an extension/menu that 
 > puts the person in voicemail or whatever else you want it to do.  Create 
 > a script that is run from crontab that looks for new voicemail.  If 
 > there is a new voicemail it creates a call file to the cell number.  The 
 > call file puts them in the extension that puts them in voicemail menu or 
 > whatever else you want.
 > 
 > If you want it to IM you, then create a script that can send you a 
 > message on whatever IM client you are using(there should be a few 
 > examples on google).  Simply have the crontab script call this for the 
 > desired affect.
 > 
 > 
 > --johann
 > 
 > Robert G. Ristroph wrote:
 > > I would like to have my asterisk ring my cell phone and let me know when a new
 > > voicemail arrives.  In fact if it would automatically put into the voicemail
 > > menu that would be cool too.  In the future I will probably want it to IM me.
 > > 
 > > Are there good examples somewhere of doing stuff automatically on the arrival of
 > > a new voicemail ?
 > > 
 > > I noticed a place for the pager email address in voicemail.conf, but I am
 > > looking to be able to configure an arbitrary action on the voicemail arrival.
 > > 
 > > I could also do this by having a script do something on the arrival of the
 > > voicemail email, but it should be more flexible to do it from within asterisk. 
 > > Do I have to write my own agi application and call it from the same place
 > > VoiceMailMain is called to do this ?
 > > 
 > > Thanks in advance,
 > > 
 > > --Rob
 > > 
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