Hi Brian, I'm sure some other people will give you better answers but quick answers are;
1/ Depends on volume of message leaving/collection, is it in a single location? Multiple locations with multiple time zones? Estimate the number of voicemails left per hour and reply with this. 2/ retrieve either via deliver to email or dial in to a number to collect voicemail via phone (or collect and play via a website) How are the retrieving their voicemail now? Do you want to replicate this for ease of replacement as near as possible? 3/ Not sure what you mean by tie in? 4/ Sure, how do you have this configured at the moment? Why not replicate voicemail group delivery in the same format? Cheers, Dean > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 4 November 2006 11:54 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [asterisk-users] Newbie questions about Voice mail > > > I am totally ignorant about actually using asterisk for any purpose. I > have read some of the docs but not all. I am currently doing a telephone > audit for my company and one of the issues is voice mail. We are spending > quit a bit of money with our telco for voice mail services and I was > wondering about using asterisk as just a voice mail system. We are not > quite ready to move to a full VOIP system yet but if I can get this system > in place the VOIP will follow. > > Could I get all 3000 phones (on 2 sites) or a large subset set to have a > call forward no-answer feature set to call a number that would be answered > by asterisk's voice mail. > > If so: > 1. what hardware do I need to handle 3000 phones? > > 2. how would users retrieve their voice mail? > > 3. how does one tie voice mail into an e-mail address? Are their ways > to do bulk updates for several thousand new users every year? > > 4. is there a feature what we call talk mail where you set up a group > of phone numbers and send the same message to all of them? > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > .....TIA > ........Brian Kaye > ...........UNB > _______________________________________________ > --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