Asterisk - for answering system (might be overkill) Hylafax - for fax server
-- #Joseph On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:33 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated > hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - > and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some > appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen > to be. > > I've heard of Bayonne (but can't find that in portage); understand that > [vm]gety is a very low-level approach (which sounds a fair bit of work) > and of Asterisk (which sounds as if it supports lots of functionality I > don't need - as well as not explicitly stating that it can use my > existing (voice/fax/modem hardware). My ideal solution would get a > basic answer-phone service up and running pretty quickly - but let me > tweak it as I find time over the medium term. > > What do other gentoo users do for answer phone and/or fax services for a > POTS line? > > > -- [email protected] mailing list

