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

[Johann]

It is in the wiki...

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out

--johann

John covici wrote:
> 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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