But with max silence at 2 seconds, couldn't someone leave a 30-second message, pause for a couple seconds to gather their thoughts or dig up a phone number, and get hung up on?
I'd think that the 3-second and 10-second settings are sensible. Saving a message that is known to be total silence has no value. --Don From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Larsen Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:32 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk voicemail minimum length / silence settings Depending on exactly what you want, those may be the right settings. What the warning is telling you is that with those settings, someone could reach voicemail, say nothing (silence on the line) and after 10 seconds it will hang up on them and deliver a 10 second silent message to their voicemail box. If you set maxsilence to something like 2 seconds, then it would hang up after 2 seconds and no message would be delivered. The only risk you run by ignoring the warning is that some users *WILL* get voicemails delivered that have no real audio, but simply be silent. If you can live with that, you settings will work fine. Kevin Larsen - Systems Analyst - Pioneer Balloon - Ph: 316-688-8208 From: asterisk users <ast4...@gmail.com> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>, Date: 01/22/2013 05:22 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk voicemail minimum length / silence settings Sent by: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com _____ What I'm trying to achieve is that a voicemail message should be at least 3 seconds long for it to be saved, but *after that* a prolonged silence (e.g. 10 seconds) should terminate the call and recording. My current settings (Asterisk 10.7.0 and 11.2.1) are: ; Minimum length of a voicemail message in seconds for the message to be kept ; The default is no minimum. minsecs=3 ; How many seconds of silence before we end the recording maxsilence=10 With these settings, I'm getting the following warning message. WARNING[21671] app_voicemail.c: maxsilence should be less than minsecs or you may get empty messages What are the "right" settings for this situation? Thanks all! -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <http://www.api-digital.com/> http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: <http://www.asterisk.org/hello> http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: <http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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