Simon P. Ditner wrote: > The voicemail application in Asterisk is one of the oldest of the > dialplan applications. It is often critisized as one of the > less-than-compelling parts of Asterisk, and, because it's functionality > is locked up in a very complex, messy and poorly-documented bit of code > (app_voicemail.c), no one has the nerve to touch it. > > Jim Van Meggelen believes there is a way to fix app_voicemail, and the > way to do it is to completely get rid of it. Rather than treat voicemail > as a closed application, and try and design an app that handles every > possible thing that anyone might want to use it for, it makes more sense > to see voicemail as a complex (very complex, in fact) IVR application, > and break it down into dialplan components that can be delivered through > dialplan logic.
Before duplicating work you might want to check out current progress on the re-working of voicemail in callweaver, for those that don't know callweaver is a fork of asterisk they hope to make stable by fixing all the bugs and problems digium refuse to. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
