asterisk users - May 2009 - Voicemail playback NEWEST first vs. OLDEST first

Is there a way to make the asterisk voicemail app play back messages in NEWEST
FIRST order, instead of OLDEST FIRST?  I see the situation repeatedly where
someone needs to dip into their voicemail archive to get something from a
recently saved voicemail message, and they have to slog through lots of
irrelevant stuff to get there.

I have seen this question come up previously on this list without an answer. 
I'm hoping that someone can shed light on how to do it, or confirm that it
is NOT currently supported.

I've looked at the new 1.6 voicemail.conf and it doesn't seem have any
parameters that speak to that feature, nor an voicemailmain parameter in 1.4 or
1.6.

Can anyone confirm that this is not supported, or enlighten us on how-to?  

Many thanks.
-Karl 
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FWIW, asterisk processes its' voicemail in FIFO (First in First out) fashion
using msgxxxx.* to store the messages, so it sends msg0000, then msg0001,
etc.   You could write a shell or perl or C script to do a "bubble
sort" on
all voicemails for a user.

 

Here is a listing of two voicemails

ll /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/108/INBOX

total 612

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  25995 May  6 21:58 msg0000.WAV

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  26334 May  6 21:58 msg0000.gsm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    233 May  6 21:58 msg0000.txt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 255404 May  6 21:58 msg0000.wav

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  24240 May  6 22:15 msg0001.WAV

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  24585 May  6 22:15 msg0001.gsm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    233 May  6 22:15 msg0001.txt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 238444 May  6 22:15 msg0001.wav

 

If you did this:

Cd /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/108/INBOX

Mv msg0000.* msg000x.*

Mv msg0001.* msg0000.*

Mv msg000x.* msg0001.*

 

You would then get the messages in LIFO (last in first out) order.    You
could create an AGI to do this sort each time the user checked voicemail.

Change dialplan from exten => 7000,1,Voicemailmain(${CALLERID(num)}@default)

To

*       exten => 7000,1,AGI(sortmail.agi)

*       exten => 7000,2,Voicemailmain(${CALLERID(num)}@default)

 

This would of course be more difficult if your voicemail is realtime or
database based. 

 

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Subject: [asterisk-users] Voicemail playback NEWEST first vs. OLDEST first

 

Is there a way to make the asterisk voicemail app play back messages in
NEWEST FIRST order, instead of OLDEST FIRST?  I see the situation repeatedly
where someone needs to dip into their voicemail archive to get something
from a recently saved voicemail message, and they have to slog through lots
of irrelevant stuff to get there. 

 

I have seen this question come up previously on this list without an answer.
I'm hoping that someone can shed light on how to do it, or confirm that it
is NOT currently supported.

 

I've looked at the new 1.6 voicemail.conf and it doesn't seem have any
parameters that speak to that feature, nor an voicemailmain parameter in 1.4
or 1.6.  

 

Can anyone confirm that this is not supported, or enlighten us on how-to?  

 

Many thanks.

-Karl 

 

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