<div dir="ltr">looking more into this, looks like this is not a issue, its related to users changing voicemail password from handset, asterisk rewrites the file.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Al lists <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asteriskal@gmail.com" target="_blank">asteriskal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>passwordlocatio seems to be related to vmsecret <br><br>from voicemail.conf sample :<br><br>; passwordlocation=spooldir<br> ; Usually the voicemail password (vmsecret) is stored in<br>
; this configuration file. By setting this option you can<br> ; specify where Asterisk should read/write the vmsecret.<br> ; Supported options:<br> ; voicemail.conf:<br>
; This is the default option. The secret is read from<br> ; and written to voicemail.conf (or users.conf).<br> ; spooldir:<br> ; The secret is stored in a separate file in the user's<br>
; voicemail spool directory in a file named secret.conf.<br> ; Please ensure that normal Linux users are not<br> ; permitted to access Asterisk's spool directory as the<br>
; secret is stored in plain text. If a secret is not<br> ; found in this directory, the password in<br> ; voicemail.conf (or users.conf) will be used.<br>
; Note that this option does not affect password storage for<br> ; realtime users, which are still stored in the realtime<br> ; backend.<br><br><br></div>but the issue i was explaining was voicemail.conf getting overwritten apparently by appvoicemail<br>
<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Paul Belanger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.belanger@polybeacon.com" target="_blank">paul.belanger@polybeacon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Al lists <<a href="mailto:asteriskal@gmail.com" target="_blank">asteriskal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> We noticed issues with voicemail and somehow looks like voicemail.conf has<br>
> been overwritten:<br>
><br>
> ;!<br>
> ;! Automatically generated configuration file<br>
> ;! Filename: voicemail.conf (/etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf)<br>
> ;! Generator: AppVoicemail<br>
> ;! Creation Date: Thu Mar 20 06:48:16 2014<br>
> ;!<br>
><br>
><br>
> i saw a bug for 1.4 and realtime but our version is 10.12.3 and we are not<br>
> using realtime.<br>
> anyway to prevent AppVoicemail ro auto generate files?<br>
><br>
</div></div>passwordlocation = spooldir<br>
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Read voicemail.conf about how to use it.<br>
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