[asterisk-users] Voicemail personalised greetings using DB/IMAP backend?

[Ray Jackson]

Hi Bryan,

I was trying to avoid creating an architecture dedicated to VM, but have 
Asterisk handle VM in a horizontally scalable way.  I understand there 
are some issues with MWI etc. if you separate out the VM from Asterisk? 
  Could you point me at any good examples of a VM architecture I could 
use as a reference?

Cheers,
Ray

Bryan M. Johns wrote:
> Ray,
> 
> Have you considered using a VM architecture?
> 
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> On Jan 5, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Ray Jackson wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am attempting to build a horizontally scalable Asterisk deployment 
>> and am getting very close to achieving that goal.  With Asterisk 1.4 I 
>> now have an IMAP backend for Voicemail messages which is great as 
>> users can check the same messages either through the voice portal or 
>> using Webmail.  However, I'm not sure the best way of dealing with 
>> personalised greetings such as a user's unavailable/busy message etc. 
>> Despite the IMAP backend these greetings appear to be stored on the 
>> local file system under /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default, which 
>> means if I build a farm of Asterisk servers - each will have it's own 
>> spool directory.  My aim is to have *nothing* stored locally at all...
>>
>> If there a way of storing these greetings in a database table or using 
>> IMAP?  I saw the ODBC voicemail storage module, but I would prefer to 
>> stick with a REALTIME/IMAP backend?  If I mount the 
>> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail directory remotely using a shared NFS 
>> mount on a NAS device will this work okay or lead to problems/race 
>> conditions etc.?  Any advice would be welcome!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ray
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