I agree with John -- I've written tools that use IMAP for storage, and it's ideal in these circumstances. Messages that have been listened to over the phone would even be flagged as 'read' in your email client automatically, and the same follows for message you listened to in your email client. It's also trivial to move a message from one folder to another, have shared folders, and all sorts of useful stuff like that.
In terms of an ODBC backed system -- I think I would look for an ODBC backed IMAP system, as the protocol is all worked out for you, and has had decades of testing. The larger issues I see are how to make it work with Microsoft, and perhaps to make it better than whatever it is that they're doing. If someone wants to do a presentation on this (even Microsoft, I know there are a few of you out there), I'd be happy to have you come talk. Right now Asterisk is sort of in the lead, but the next iterration of technology is right around the corner, and could easily blow asterisk off the map. -spd On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, John Lange wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 12:39 -0400, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > > I think those comments are very helpful, and for the most part I agree that > > this is what voicemail in Asterisk should aspire to. > > > > But, from what I know of IMAP (which is admittedly not much), it is not > > fully fleshed-out or supported yet. > > I assume you mean the IMAP support in Asterisk "is not fully > fleshed-out" as opposed to IMAP in general and that may be true. I > personally have not used it yet and it is relatively new. > > But if you are spending time writing stuff that handles file naming, > re-naming, deleted flags, locking or any of those things then you are > re-inventing the IMAP wheel and that should probably be avoided. > > John > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
