I'm reading the Asterisk book, 2nd edition, and it describes how one can
set up voicemail to be delivered by IMAP to a voicemail folder. Asterisk
can monitor flags on the folder so that the "message available" light on
one's phone tracks the state of the "read" flag in the folder. One can
either dial in for one's voicemail or listen to it from one's favorite IMAP
client. (Dovecot is mentioned in the book.)
I'm wondering how one would set up auth for this? Asterisk needs to log in
to the account to deliver the voicemail and to check its state, but I
wouldn't want to put everyone's mail password in plaintext in Asterisk's
voicemail.conf file.
Would I set up a separate IMAP account for each user to hold their
voicemail, and use simple passwords (such as the PIN they use for phone
access to voicemail) in the Asterisk config? Or is there a way to set up
Dovecot to allow a second user to login to a specific IMAP folder in all
accounts, in the same way the local delivery agent has write access to all
users' mailbox?
Google's page for the book:
<http://books.google.com/books?id=vtQxJ3oSm64C&dq=asterisk+book>
Dovecot mentions:
<http://books.google.com/books?id=vtQxJ3oSm64C&dq=asterisk+book&q=dovecot#search>
