asterisk users - Mar 2006 - Remote MWI over IAX2

Hi All,

I'm wondering has anyone made any further progress with getting MWI to work
from a stand-alone asterisk VM server to other asterisk servers where the sip
phones are actually registered to?  MWI link accross IAX2?

Thanks.

JR

JR Richardson
Engineering for the Masses

I've been warned many times that Fax over VoIP is unreliable.  

How should I consider Fax over PRI channels with Asterisk?  Is the quality
and reliability good, or should I be prepared for alot of grief?


Mike

Hi JR - 
 
> I'm wondering has anyone made any further progress with getting MWI to
work
> from a stand-alone asterisk VM server to other asterisk servers where the
sip
> phones are actually registered to?  MWI link accross IAX2?
To my knowledge there is no direct implementation to do this.  The
workarounds that I'm aware of:

1. On the central Asterisk box that is storing your voicemails, make the
voicemail spool accessible via nfs (or samba, or whatever), mount the spool
directory on the remote asterisk box, and point astspooldir (in
asterisk.conf) to where you mounted the nfs share.  The remote asterisk
server then sees the voicemail files as they are written, but it doesn't
actually have to transfer them, so it's fairly quick.  This, of course,
would be foolhardy to do without a VPN connection.  I used this method on a
couple of servers for a while.  It's a bit hackish, but it works.

2. Store your voicemails in a database using odbc to connect (on both
asterisk machines).  Replicate the database from one machine to another.  Of
course, this would also be smart to do with a VPN tunnel.  I won't tell you
this is easy to set up (cause it ain't), but it's definitely a more
elegant
solution than option 1.

- Noah