[asterisk-users] Attatch monitor recording to a voicemail

[Dovid B]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jared Smith" <jsmith at digium.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Attatch monitor recording to a voicemail


> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:59 +0000, Ben Willcox wrote:
>> 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...
>
> No, you're on the right track.
>
> In a nutshell, you'll have to figure out whether app_voicemail looks a
> the .txt files or the actually recordings first (when determining the
> next message number), and have your program create that file first.  (As
> I recall, it's the .txt files that app_voicemail looks at.)  Obviously
> if you're not careful, there can be a race condition there, but the idea
> is that if a caller were to leave a voicemail on the system, it would
> see the file already there and choose the next number.
>
> -- 
> Jared Smith
> Community Relations Manager
> Digium, Inc.
>

Jared,
You mentioned that you have done it in the past.Can you post your code here 
?

Thanks.

Dovid