Hi Peder -
Is the storage of actual voicemail messages in a database still limited to ODBC? If so, why?
Yes. Why? Nobody has developed a voicemail solution that directly connects to a *SQL database for message storage.
And is the use of mySQL and ODBC at the same time still a bad idea? If so, why?
ODBC is just a connection to interface with a database. You have to run a database like mysql in order to use an ODBC driver. Can you use the same mysql database for asterisk configs and odbc voicemail storage: yes.
I want to store all of my voicemail stuff in a database so that I can give users web access to it, but I don't want to run web services on my * server itself. If it is all in a DB, I can have a web box and a separate SQL box and none of it should affect *.
Yes, you can do this. There are other ways to do this without using database storage for voicemail (e.g. you could use normal file-based storage for voicemail and have the webserver connect to the vm storage on the * server via nfs). - Noah _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
