[asterisk-users] Voicemail feature: enable or disable the ability to leave a message

[C. Chad Wallace]

At 11:24 PM on 31 Jul 2009, Emrah wrote:

> Doug,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> I know there are plenty of workarounds there, I am not asking how to
> do it because I know how to do it too.
> What I am saying is that it could be an embedded feature in the
> Voicemail application, like the recent ability to flag a message as
> "urgent".

Maybe the work being done (been done?) through Google Summer of Code
2009[1] will net some progress in this direction.  MiniVM looks like a
pretty good idea... but it's got a long way to go.

I seriously doubt app_voicemail itself will get any new features,
regardless of how many good ideas get thrown around.  Just like what
happened with AgentCallbackLogin, I think instead of augmenting the
incumbent system, Digium will probably replace VoiceMail and
VoiceMailMain with an equivalent dialplan solution using MiniVM.  It's
much more flexible that way.

[1]
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2009-April/038028.html


> Doug Lytle wrote:
> > Emrah wrote:
> >   
> >> Mark,
> >>
> >> I think you did not understand my message.
> >> I am accustomed to have the option to allow or disallow the
> >> recording of a message in my voicemail, even my mobile carrier
> >> provides it. E.g.: I 
> >>     
> >
> > The simplest thing to do is to allow users to set a flag, maybe
> > using mysql or the astdb, if they want that option.
> >
> > And, in your dial plan, check for the existance of that flag.  If
> > it's there, then don't jump to the voice mail app, just jump to
> > your context that would play back an audio file that the user has
> > pre-recorded
> >
> > Doug


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C. Chad Wallace, B.Sc.
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