<span class="gmail_quote">On 7/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Kohlsmith</b> <<a href="mailto:akohlsmith-asterisk@benshaw.com">akohlsmith-asterisk@benshaw.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 26 July 2007 12:51:06 pm Eric Chamberlain wrote:<br>> Could you elaborate on how you configure the MWI of the mobile device to<br>> use asterisk voicemail?<br><br>yes, please explain. SMSing the phone doesn't light MWI, unless you get
<br>access to the "raw" SMSC, as all the email gateways just mangle the message.<br><br>-A.</blockquote><div><br>
We have used a few SMS gateways. None of the American providers seem to
support MWI, I think its the SMSC itself that is blocking the MWI
messages but then again I feel the normal SMS is better because it provides
the phone no. of the caller. Here in our region T-Mobile mainly was
Omnipoint/Voicestream and I remember being rather disappointed when they
switched from an SMS (with the caller's number) to real MWI.<br>
</div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James R. Stevens</b> <<a href="mailto:jstevens@athensdistributing.com">jstevens@athensdistributing.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">To give everyone our motives or circumstance:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> The company in question does not pay for the salesperson(s)
mobile phone therefore, we have a mixed bag of phones and providers for them.
None are smartphones, none sync any type of e-mail.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Of the mobile phones I've used here I don't think a single one after yr. 2000 didnt support at least receiving SMS of 160 characters.
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Our company currently pays for alpha-numeric pagers (outdated as
well) which the sales managers use to text and page as well as customers.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Do you intend to phase those out any time soon? Those would be perfect for notifications in case you are concerned about SMS and the salesforce mobile phones.
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The goal is simply to notify or forward the salesperson of a VM
left by someone(customer or the like) in the office(Asterisk VM in the office).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> What options would we have with asterisk VM functionality?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>If you don't want to use SMS then look at the externnotify in
voicemail.conf you need to write a script but it should not be complex. You need a database of sorts to associate voicemail boxes to annoucment numbers, if you're creative enough you can find a way to use voicemail.conf
or your voicemail SQL or LDAP database for that. I'm sure you can find someone to write you a 500 line Perl script for $1/line, or less, if you don't desire to do it personally.<br></div><br></div>