asterisk users - Oct 2019 - email notification on missed call

Hello,

what is the best way to implement email notification on missed call ?

So far, I have been using a solution that I hacked together. I create a
hangup-handler, inside which I check for "${DIALSTATUS}" and use
System():

  System(/bin/echo ... | /usr/bin/mail ....)

I have pasted the block here, for better formating:

  https://pastebin.com/Sf8raPD6

My question is:

Do I have to call external echo and pipe it to mail command?

Does asterisk not have some internal function to send email ?
It does so for voicemail.

Is there perhaps a better way to this than described above ?

thanks,

On 10/30/19 12:10 AM, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> Does asterisk not have some internal function to send email ?
> It does so for voicemail.
>
> Is there perhaps a better way to this than described above ?
As far as I am aware, Asterisk has no built-in dialplan function to 
allow sending of email.

The way that your currently programming this is the typical way that I 
would handle it.

Doug

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On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 05:10 +0100, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> what is the best way to implement email notification on missed call ?
> Is there perhaps a better way to this than described above ?
This is my way:

exten => h,1,System(echo "Missed Call Open on Asterisk from
${CALLERID(num)}" | mail -s "Missed VIP Call on Asterisk from
${CALLERID(num)}" -a "From: Astersik PBX <pbx at
example.com>" myemailaddr
ess at example.com)

exten => h,n,HangUp()

On Saturday 02 November 2019 at 10:56:19, Frank Vanoni wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 05:10 +0100, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> > what is the best way to implement email notification on missed call ?
> > 
> > Is there perhaps a better way to this than described above ?
> 
> This is my way:
> 
> exten => h,1,System(echo "Missed Call Open on Asterisk from
> ${CALLERID(num)}" | mail -s "Missed VIP Call on Asterisk from
> ${CALLERID(num)}" -a "From: Asterisk PBX <pbx at
example.com>"
> myemailaddress at example.com)
Doesn't that send an email for every call once it ends, not just unanswered 
ones?
> exten => h,n,HangUp()
That looks most strange to me - calling Hangup() in the hangup extension...

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