[asterisk-users] New Voicemail Client for Win32, Linux x86, Mac OS X released

[Jordi Nelissen_]

In the meanwhile I had the occasion to test and install Tycho.

1. Easy installation
2. Easy configuration
3. Works fast
4. When deleting a voicemail via the phone, the message list shown in 
Tycho is updated automatically almost instantly, which is cool.

--> Nice solution.

If I may say so, an extra feature which would make the solution complete 
is to have the possibility to delete a message by clicking on a URL 
displayed in the voicemail message notification. This will however 
require an improvement of your XML API.

Assume that the URL in the email displays:

http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/vmxml/voicemail.php?folder=INBOX&action=deletemessage&msg=msg0001

When clicking on this link, the voicemail will be deleted.

BUT if msg0000 was previously deleted by asterisk there is an issue 
because asterisk (at least the one I have been using in this test, 1.07) 
seems to renumber all voicemail messages. This means msg0001 becomes 
msg0000 and msg0002 becomes msg0001. As a result when clicking on the 
link in the email you will in fact be deleting msg0002 (!!!).

In short, you could improve your API by deleting a message based upon a 
unique identifier (for example origtime) instead of the message ID.

... my 2 cents

Jordi


Arnd Vehling wrote:
> Jordi Nelissen_ wrote:
> 
>> did not yet took the time to evaluate Tycho, but the Voicemail XML 
>> server side scripts are very helpfull. The source code is rather 
>> self-explanatory ... but it could be even more helpfull if you could 
>> provide us with some documentation on the usage of this API.
> 
> The docs are somewhat basic but 90% complete. I will finish them
> start of next week. Check the website for an update of the vmxml
> docs. Ill post a followup in this thread when complete.
> 
> cheers,
> 
>   Arnd