[asterisk-users] Creating a Voicemail ...

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Russell Bryant wrote:
> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> So what I want is something like:
>>
>>    exten => action,n,VoiceMailStore (mailbox at context,filename)
> 
> There is no easy way to do this.  As you already mentioned, one hack would be to 
> manually create the files in the mailbox.  However, I think you may be able to 
> pull this off another way.  I wonder if something like this would work.  This is 
> completely untested.  I am just throwing out an idea.  :)

I believe that Asterisk's app_voicemail uses lock files for locking 
mailboxes when creating a message.  IIRC, Asterisk records the voicemail 
message in a temp audio file, locks the mailbox, moves the file into the 
mailbox, then unlocks the mailbox.

Check the code to see what it does.