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? > > >
years ago I used "hylafax". Only as fax. It's (well) written in "C" so it's easy to patch. -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
