[asterisk-users] Detecting voicemail from CO on FXO

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> You're right- that is a simplified way of putting it (a subdialect, as it
> were).  Point is, to my knowledge (I'll happily stand down if it is) that
> support isn't presently there, and there hasn't been a huge rush of people

The support is only a few (realy I don't know how many lines of code,
I'm assuming just a few lines, in any case my point is that the
hardware support is there) lines of code, since CID is also a form of
ADSI.

> looking for it.  It's really only useful in the extremely small office
> (SOHO) situation, or to someone who wants to integrate a non-asterisk VM
> system with Asterisk- the converse of what most people here generally want
> to do.  (I'd have to wonder why you'd do that, since Asterisk VM works so
> well, and is easily customized to your needs).  I do have customers who
> might see some advantage to it- but more in a unified messaging sort of way,
> so that they could 'collect' all their voicemail, answering machines, etc,
> into one storage location (asterisk) and use that to transport it out again.
>  Plus, as someone else pointed out- it might not be stutter tone- there are
> a few different ways of signalling voicemail on analog lines.  All of which
> should be possible to handle in Zaptel drivers- but more research would have
> to be done.
>

I totaly agree with everything else you mentioned.