Well, you are the only person (other than me) to try a Voicemail program. I downloaded one from Fresh meat (I don't the name) and tried Kvoice but to no avail. The problem I had was exactly the same as you. I went to different sites including this list to get help but I got no answers. The closest answer to a solution was from McMillan's site ( Expert Exchange) that you have to make your own greeting as a WAV file and then use it. But I could never manage to import my message to the program. So I did what another expert advised: This is Linux and we do not bother with these kind of programs!!! Sorry I cannot help but finally I gave up on Voicemail programs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "BobC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Help! Trying to get a Voicemail system to work... > If anyone here has a clue how to get ANY voicemail program to work, > please let me know. I've spent many, many hours trying to get kvoice to > work, including OS reinstall to go from 7.2 back to 7.1. No luck with > it. I did get it to record voicemails and save them, and play them > back, but it won't play a greeting msg for all the time and money in the > world. And now PMFax. Tried with it since I got up today. Asterisk > wouldn't even compile. I only know of one more that isn't finished code > (I lost the bookmark with the OS reinstall). > > If I can't even INSTALL a voicemail program, I can't imagine my odds in > messing with one in an attempt to get it to run. > > The following is the email I sent the writers of PMFax: > > I've spent the past 12 hrs trying to get PMFax to work. I have a fresh > version, downloaded today. I can't get it to play an announcement, nor > does it save the voicemails reseived from what I can see. It does beep > and seem like its recording a msg or trying to get a fax. I am running > Linux Mandrake 7.1. Minicom is able to communicate with the Actiontec > 56k voice/fax modem and it has a Rockwell Chipset. I also have a USR > 56k Voice/Fax Ext PRO which doesn't work. Both are on com2: (I just > swapped them) and using IRQ 3 and ttyS01 linked to /dev/modem. > > I have mgetty+sendfax installed, as well as vgetty. I tried removing > this from the /etc/inittab and rebooting, but it didn't help. > > I also downloaded Regina 2.0 and installed it, thinking that maybe the > scripts weren't executing at all because I didn't have the pgm. It > didn't install in the path, so I copied the executable to /usr/bin. I > also made all the .cmd files executable and am doing everything as root > in an attempt to make sure security problems aren't causing it to not > work. > > Can you please forward this to someone that knows how to install the > product and make it work in hopes they might shed light on how I can get > it operational? > > Thanks for any help, > > Bob Currey > >
