[asterisk-users] Asterisk voicemail

[Steven Howes]

On 14 Oct 2008, at 11:00, Chris Rowson wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm working on a solution using the Asterisk voicemail component and
>> wondered if anyone knew the answer to this question please?
>>
>> I understand that Asterisk saves voicemail to
>> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/<context>/<mailbox>/INBOX/  but I
>> wondered if * creates the file in memory (or tmp/or wherever) and  
>> then
>> loads the completed file into that directory, or if it writes the  
>> file
>> to the directory directly, appending it till the recording is
>> finished?
>
> Sorry to reply to my own post! I notice a tmp directory at
> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/<context>/<mailbox>/tmp/ I'm wondering
> if this is where the file is created, and then moved to the INBOX
> folder perhaps?

Just do an `asterisk -r` and leave a voicemail. It answers all your  
questions.