Does/could the command interrupt call flow? Or does it get fired off and not wait for it to finish. I know calls to agi scripts will wait for them to finish. (unless this is optional)
-- -- Steven http://www.glimasoutheast.org "Dave Fullerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Steven wrote: >> I have been thinking of sending a page when asterisk dials 911. >> beep "Attention, 911 has been dialed by " dialing-extension " whose callerID >> is " callerID. >> >> I think an email would also be appropriate for HR/facility records. >> >> Does anyone know how to send an email from the dialplan? >> I assume I would need an agi for this, but I would want to spawn it off and >> not affect the call to 911, but also not wait for the >> call to finish either. >> So, the second question is, how do I spawn a second call flow without >> affecting the first? >> > > I like the idea of an email being generated when 911 is dialed. I'll have to > keep that in mind when I set up the system I'm > currently planning. But, to your question... I have asterisk send me an email > under certain conditions. What I did was create a > shell script that did the work of sending the email which accepted arguments > to pass along the info I needed. Then I just used the > System app in the dialplan to execute the script. It's actually pretty simple > to do. It gets a little more difficult if you don't > have sendmail/postfix/etc installed on your asterisk server. I ended up using > an smtp client program that behaved like the > sendmail command to send the mail through another server. > > -Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
