[asterisk-users] Deleting voicemail by program

[Carlos Chavez]

     The script included with Asterisk (messages-expire.pl) deletes 
older messages and then renumbers the rest of the messages.  I guess you 
need to do the same.

On 09/10/23 2:24 PM, Mike Diehl wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm using a version of asterisk that is old enough to not
> benefit from this... <grin>
>
> Mike.
>
> On Monday, October 9, 2023 3:15:45 PM EDT Michael Bradeen wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> New AMI actions were recently added to app_voicemail to let you remotely
>> manipulate a mailbox:
>> https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/issues/181
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> BR,
>> -Mike
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 1:06 PM Mike Diehl <mdiehl at diehlnet.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I need to be able to delete a voicemail message using a program.
>>>
>>> Is is sufficient to simply delete the .wav and .txt files in the spool
>>> directory?
>>> Or do I need to also renumber the remaining files?
>>>
>>> For example, let say a given mailbox has 20 messages in it and I want to
>>> delete message number 5.  Can I just delete the 2 files and expect that
>>> asterisk will renumber them?  Or do I need to?
>>>
>>> Also, is the answer the same when I migrate to storing voicemails in a
>>> database?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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