Dave Donovan wrote:
On 7/25/07, Simon P. Ditner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
OK then, to combine the apparent benefits of IMAP with Jim's vision of a
dialplan based VM system, maybe what we need is to IMAP enable the
dialplan
with a few functions.
That would be really cool. Then, if you wanted to do something somewhere
else in the dialplan that integrated with the IMAP repository, (like
tel a
calling card user that they have N messages waiting when they dial in for
access) you'd have the benefit of those functions and of some programming
examples as to how they were used in the Dialplan voicemail.
Dave
Whilst agreeing that there are many benefits to IMAP support,
_requiring_ the use of IMAP will have the unintended consequence of
restricting the audience for the new vm app. We all know that _we_ are
comfortable installing and administering IMAP servers but the additional
effort and complexity will be too much for those who are new to VoIP and
Asterisk. My own home Asterisk system, like many others, is unlikely to
be able to make use of it because of the lack of resources on a Slug or
OpenWRT device. My Asterisk at work is a different story but most
features get learned and piloted at home first.
Start with a filesystem based implementation that can run on anything
and attract a user base before building the industrial grade version.
regards,
Drew
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