asterisk users - Jan 2012 - cached VMI on manual voicemail update

Hi

I use a simple script to enable/disable for voicemail on an extension
for testing (attached: test_voicemail). The script only created the txt
file, but I don't suppose this should matter.

I set up a mailbox. The new message shows fine in 'voicemail show users'
(The new user takes 'voicemail reload' for it to be added on the list,
but after it has been initially added , it seems to be updated
immediately (or by running 'voicemail show users'?).

However the voicemail indication to the tested phone (in chan_dahdi, in
this case) did not follow suit: it never updates. Even a full 'dahdi
restart' is not good enough. Nothing short of a restart of asterisk
seems to make it update.

Looking further I see that the MWI values are cached:

kemeny*CLI> event dump cache MWI 
Event Type: MWI
Cache Unique Keys:
--> Mailbox
--> Context

--- Begin Cache Dump ---

Event: MWI
Mailbox: 4004
Context: default
NewMessages: 1
OldMessages: 0
EntityID: 00:1c:c0:fc:f0:ad

--- End Cache Dump ---

kemeny*CLI> voicemail show users 
Context    Mbox  User                      Zone       NewMsg
default    4004                                            0
1 voicemail users configured.


Is there any way to tell Asterisk to flush that cache? Is this
considered a bug?


Tested on 1.8 (1.8.7.0 and SVN-branch-1.8-r349672).

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#!/bin/sh

NUM=${2-:4001}

vm_base="/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default"
vm_dir="$vm_base/$NUM/INBOX"

setup() {
	sed -i -e "/^$NUM/d" -e "\$a$NUM => ,"
/etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf
}

on() {
	mkdir -p "$vm_dir"
	cat <<EOF >"$vm_dir/msg0000.txt"
;
; Message Information file
;
[message]
origmailbox=$NUM
context=from-internal
macrocontextexten=s
priority=1
callerchan=DAHDI/1-1
callerid="Channel 1" <$NUM>
origdate=`date -R`
origtime=`date +'%s'`
categoryduration=4
EOF
}

off() {
	rm -f "$vm_dir/"*
}

case "$1" in
	setup | on | off) "$1";;
esac

On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 02:30:03PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Is there any way to tell Asterisk to flush that cache? Is this
> considered a bug?
It's a feature. To enable such polls, set:

  pollmailboxes = yes
  ;pollfrequency = NN ; seconds

Thanks to mjordan on IRC.

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               Tzafrir Cohen
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