[asterisk-users] Message waiting question...

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi.

Thank you so much for answering. I guess I couldn't get a better
qualified answer !

On 7/27/06, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:

> Anything is possible, it's just to what extreme do you want to go to make it happen. Right now we have no way of transporting arbitrary information (like MWI status) between servers. In the future however I'm hoping we'll have something. For now there's two er I mean three ways off the top of my head you could approach this.


Hum... I'm afraid that what I was expecting ....

> 1. Using ODBC storage to store your voicemail in a database and have each server setup against that database. The MWI will just query the database to see if there are messages, and since there will be... MWI will be sent to the phone.

This may be a disturbing solution, I have over 30 voicemail on server2
and I guess I would have to convert all of them first.
This may be the easiest solution if you can set up a database
voicemail for one user only...

>
> 2. Using the ability to execute an outside application that exists right now and using your own method to communicate back to turn on MWI (maybe generating a SIP NOTIFY to poke the phone with?).

That sounds quite complicated...

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> 3. Share the voicemail directory over something like NFS.
How often does asterisk check the content of the voicemail directory?
the two machines connect over a 512kbit/s link, I'm afraid there could
be a bandwidth problem.

JY