I was working on something like this. There are a few isues: (1) First off yes you have to have access to the tesxt of the e-mail. Notice the word "test" we don't want html or MS word atachments.
(2) Next look below nice al the silly junk like quotes are indicated by >> marks. This has to be converted. The the "ascii art" in the sig line. OK this is not hard just a whole bunch of Perl scripting or if you are really nuts like me try lex/yaac to define an "e-mail grammer" There is much to be done here basically we are building a "script" that any reader (human or machine) would be able to read into a telephone. The BEST format to use a voice markup language not plain text. Festival can read the markup language (3) Finally you spimply scrip it and run it on as command line application on _many_ test emails and listen. (4) assuming #3 above is done integrating it into * is very easy. One interrresting idea would be to automaticaly drop email into voice boxes oruswer could us a menu tree If anyone seriouly wants to work on the above isues please CC me directly about it. Im my opinion most of the work is in #2 which would be implemented outside of the * code base as a stand alone application. --- Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:47:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to setup an Asterisk system that can allow someone > to > > dial in using a DID and listen to their e-mail? Has anyone done > this? > > It seems that basically yes, but quite depends on your local > settings. > > For instance, is Asterisk allowed to read users' mails? > > As for a user interface, consider the one of the original berkeley > mail. > It was designed to work in very simple terminals. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best > ICQ# 16849755 | | friend > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users