On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:33 pm, 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 ...
I've been doing this for about a year & a half now - it's very convenient.
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).
I've been using vgetty - the version in Portage is pretty good, and once I actually sat down to configure it I had it mostly up & running over the course of an evening - I think it sounds much more complicated than it is. Many modems are more or less supported, but I don't remember the details - searching & reading the archives of the mgetty mailing list will see you right. If you decide to go this route I have scripts to mail the messages as .mp3 attachments that I can let you have; it does them as proper MIME, and they even play from the IMAP client on my new Windows CE mobile phone. :D
I'm migrating to Asterisk Real Soon Now (tm), but it certainly won't support any of your current hardware - it's more appropriate if you want to do VoIP, probably involving routing all your telephone calls through it. If you have to ask, you probably don't want to use Asterisk yet.
Stroller.
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