[asterisk-users] Attatch monitor recording to a voicemail

[Ben Willcox]

Jared Smith wrote:

> I've always done this by setting the MONITOR_EXEC channel variable to
> point to an external program that takes care of moving the recording to
> the proper location so that it can be accessed by the user who made the
> recording.  I'll bet if you search for MONITOR_EXEC and
> MONITOR_EXEC_ARGS you'll find exactly what you need.

Thanks Jared,

That gets me halfway there, but what I'm wondering about is the process 
of moving of the recording to the correct place - i.e. should my 
external program do the following:

1) Check the users voicemail directory for existing message filenames
2) Copy the recording into the voicemail directory named msgxxxx.WAV 
(incremented depending on number of existing messages)
3) Create the msgxxxx.txt file in the correct format

or is there another way that will sort this all out automatically? What 
would happen if a real voicemail drops into that directory while my 
external script is halfway through copying/creating for example...

Cheers,
Ben