[asterisk-users] VOICEMAIL OPTIONS help needed

[Drew Gibson]

Steve Johnson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have a particular user on our Asterisk 1.4.x system who always
> listens to his voicemail messages via email.
>
> - Is there some way to send the voicemail ONLY to email and not retain
> them on the phone?
>
> - Alternatively, can the voicemail system only keep, say, just the
> last 10 messages (as backup in case of email delivery failure or a
> message getting deleted in email accidentally before it is heard),
> purging out the oldest when a new one is received?
> (If we set the option maxmsg=10 on his mailbox in voicemail.conf, I
> think it will stop accepting voicemails after 10 messages, not turf
> the oldest one and accept a new one in its place).
>
> Everyone else uses the normal voicemail options on their phones, so
> the solution should be just for this single user.
>
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> S.
>   

from voicemail.conf (1.2.24):-

; delete=yes            ; After notification, the voicemail is deleted 
from the server. [per-mailbox only]

regards,

Drew

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Drew Gibson

Systems Administrator
OANDA Corporation
www.oanda.com