--On 10/3/06 4:52 PM -0400 "Horton, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I would like to build is a simple, but scalable, voicemail system that uses IMAP for the message store and meets the following requirements:
Here at Penn, we've modified Asterisk to use IMAP for its backend message store for voicemail. That code is in the current development trunk. Other universities are also in the development and testing phase of this. Our plan is to use Cyrus for this, even though we currently use UW for general-purpose IMAP.
- Since it's voicemail, the average daily number of accesses per user is far less than email (hence one server would support many more users, I think, as long as sufficient storage is available)
I think you're wrong about this. If you have people point their usual IMAP client at it, then the rate of access is the same as general-purpose mail. If you have an application managing message waiting indicators (MWI) on the phone sets, then it might be even higher than general-purpose mail. (If neither of those are true, then you are probably correct.) If your application(s) will be the only IMAP clients, you won't have general-purpose mail clients accessing vociemail via IMAP, then I question the wisdom of using IMAP for this at all. It introduces an unnecessary layer of complexity and potential delay.
- Greetings would be stored as attachments to messages in another mailbox (which means I need a way of getting a message into a mailbox other than INBOX through some automated process)
Ours will not store the greetings as messages in the IMAP store. This is the only significant difference from your requirements. -- Mark Sirota, Associate Director, Network Engineering and Services University of Pennsylvania, Information Systems and Computing [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 215 573 7214 _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
