Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
James Hiscock wrote: This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, doesn't work with m|vgetty. ...yeah... [vm]getty has no support for Class 1 fax, but it's (theoretically) still ok for voice... Hmmm - I've just looked out a manual and it seems to agree with you... and until this hint I'd no

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-21 Thread Stroller
On Apr 21, 2005, at 6:52 pm, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: There was an interesting bit in the vgetty faq about potential imminent support for class 1 fax modems... but there was no hint as to a timescale. Imminent would not be a correct statement of the current status. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-20 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
James Hiscock wrote: You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to get it working, but it's pretty straight-forward. That looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Stroller wrote: snipI'm migrating to Asterisk Real Soon Now (tm), but it certainly won't support any of your current hardware - it's more appropriate if you want to do VoIP, probably involving routing all your telephone calls through it. If you have to ask, you probably don't want to use

[gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen to be. I've heard of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Joseph wrote: Asterisk - for answering system (might be overkill) Hylafax - for fax server Hmmm - That was my take on Asterisk too... if it really is the best way to do a voice-mail system - then I guess I should take the plunge... I'd still be interested to know if there are viable

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Stroller
On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:33 pm, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment ... I've been doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread James Hiscock
What do other gentoo users do for answer phone and/or fax services for a POTS line? You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Stroller
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:25 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I've been using vgetty - the version in Portage is pretty good, and once I actually sat down to configure it I had it mostly up running over the course of an evening - I think it sounds much more complicated than it is I'm migrating to