The topic got a bit quiet, so I was just wondering if we're still having that "sub-pub".... unless it already happened [sorry, was away for a little while] sounds like we can get a lot of whiteboard done on this subject....as I see a lot of brain action done. Simon, the concept you're using in your tools are quite the same it is with Exchange; ie. 'Listened to' Voicemails are flagged as 'read' messages > 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.> It's quite simple to use Microsoft Exchange as a VoiceMail system for Asterisk, thus replacing app_voicemail...well, diverting the VM to be exact. Asterisk being a very cooperative platform, "it basically doesn't mind someone else taking the load" [lol] I'm sure the question will then come down to "how Asterisk would 'handle' WMI in this situation?" --- ahhh.....good question! I've seen some commercial soft out there....but I'm more looking into OpenSource solution instead... Thanks, Claudius
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:24:36 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected]> Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] replacing > app_voicemail> > 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]> _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
