Asterisk Users: I've been working hard on app_voicemail2 which is an enhanced scalability version of app_voicemail. Specifically, its features are: * Highly improved internal architecture (maybe someone else can actually code on it) * Foot print for getting mailboxes from DB (for Vonage) * Segmentable mailboxes, allowing you to truly multihost voicemail for multiple companies * Reads voicemail.conf only on startup and reload I'd really like people to help bang on it by replacing VoiceMail and VoiceMailMain in your config with VoiceMailMain2 and VoiceMail2 and try to make sure that it all works nicely for you. Thanks! Mark
Here's a bug .... I have voicemail set up so that dialling 40 from an internal phone goes straight to check voicemail with Voicemailmain. I currently have no voicemails. With Voicemailmain, selecting option 2 (change folder) lists the folders sequentially so that a new folder can be selected. With Voicemailmain2, that menu is absent and * simply utters "work messages" before returning to the previous menu. Iain --On Saturday, May 10, 2003 11:17:39 -0500 Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com> wrote:> Asterisk Users: > > I've been working hard on app_voicemail2 which is an enhanced scalability > version of app_voicemail. Specifically, its features are: > > * Highly improved internal architecture (maybe someone else can > actually code on it) > * Foot print for getting mailboxes from DB (for Vonage) > * Segmentable mailboxes, allowing you to truly multihost > voicemail for multiple companies > * Reads voicemail.conf only on startup and reload > > I'd really like people to help bang on it by replacing VoiceMail and > VoiceMailMain in your config with VoiceMailMain2 and VoiceMail2 and try to > make sure that it all works nicely for you. > > Thanks! > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Mark Spencer wrote:> Asterisk Users:> > > I'd really like people to help bang on it by replacing VoiceMail and > VoiceMailMain in your config with VoiceMailMain2 and VoiceMail2 and try to > make sure that it all works nicely for you. >I don't know if this is appropriate time for a feature request, but there is two things that the asterisk voicemail system doesn't do that sure would be handy "if it did." One would be Audix-type "headers" with the messages, that would tell us the date, time and source of a voicemail message. I think at least the date and time would be fairly easy to code? The other, and this one isn't commonly done so it must be hard, would be to skip forward or backwards through the old messages more than one at a time. I have this little anomaly where if I'm retrieving mail remotely sometimes the tones don't get heard quite right, and it disconnects. So if I was just listening to a message, then now that message is an "old" message, and it's at the end of the list. And then, calling back and trying again, if it messes up again after the eighth or ninth of twenty-two messages, and I have to call back yet again, the blood pressure rises pretty high. Would it be hard to have a menu option that would allow the user to jump to a given message number, or perhaps have an option to go most-recent to least? Thanks. B.
> I currently have no voicemails. With Voicemailmain, selecting option 2 > (change folder) lists the folders sequentially so that a new folder can be > selected. With Voicemailmain2, that menu is absent and * simply utters > "work messages" before returning to the previous menu.Oopsies, sorry about that. How about now? Mark
I'm not sure what is supposed to happen at Main prompt when one presses "3" (Advanced Options) it just starts repeating options again. I never used this feature under the older voicemail system, so maybe it's not supposed to do anything yet? B.
Ill start using it Monday can we use MP3 file compression for voicemail? at least the email attachments? and can you add the suggestions i had about checking for the ".wav49" file extensions for gsm encoded files and truncating them to just ".wav" so that windows clients can play them? windows does not recognize the wav49 file extension for auto playback.. Dave>>> markster@digium.com 5/10/2003 10:17:39 AM >>>Asterisk Users: I've been working hard on app_voicemail2 which is an enhanced scalability version of app_voicemail. Specifically, its features are: * Highly improved internal architecture (maybe someone else can actually code on it) * Foot print for getting mailboxes from DB (for Vonage) * Segmentable mailboxes, allowing you to truly multihost voicemail for multiple companies * Reads voicemail.conf only on startup and reload I'd really like people to help bang on it by replacing VoiceMail and VoiceMailMain in your config with VoiceMailMain2 and VoiceMail2 and try to make sure that it all works nicely for you. Thanks! Mark _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Oh oh. Something's hosed now in my mailbox. I have three messages in my inbox; I can see them when I look in the spool dir. Also, my old messages didn't seem to be in front of the Voicemail app, either. I reverted to VoicemailMain and now I can get at them all. CVS fetched sometime this afternoon. FYI. B.
> can we use MP3 file compression for voicemail? at least the email > attachments?Forgetting the patent issues related to MP3 compression, both MP3 and Vorbis are poor formats for storing voice because the formats were not designed to be vocoders.> and can you add the suggestions i had about checking for the ".wav49" > file extensions for gsm encoded files and truncating them to just > ".wav" so that windows clients can play them? windows does not > recognize the wav49 file extension for auto playback..It's already fixed in voicemail2 (feel free to check) Mark
Hey Mark,
Great work! Here are some suggestions and differences I noticed:
- When the "s"-option is passed to the Voicemail2-app, it not only
doesn't play the recording help-message, but also doesn't play the
beep. I suggest to alway play the beep, or add an extra option
to toggle it independently. On a side-note, the description of
"Voicemail2" still suggests that you can't use the "s"
together with
other options, which I'm happy to see is no longer the case there.
- When exitting VoicemailMain2, the "goodbye"-prompt is not played.
I'm not sure if this is intentional or not.
- It would be nice to have an option during / after playback of a message
to hear the "envelope" of the message. This should include the time
and
date it was received, the caller-ID of the sender, if available, etc.
- Maybe build in an option to allow voicemail-users to send messages
to eachother, from VoicemailMain2?
- It would be really helpful to be able to configure the permissions
(mode and maybe user / group as well) of anything created in the
voicemail spool-directory, if possible on a per-mailbox basis. In the
current situation, you almost don't get around running "vmail.cgi"
as
root, patching "app_voicemail.c" to change the permissions or running
a cron-job to chmod / chown the files regularly. I think many people
here would love to see such an option, as I've seen the permission-
problem mentioned here frequently.
- The current VoicemailMain2 allows unlimited failed login-attempts to a
mailbox. I suggest adding a configurable limit.
That's it for now.
Grtz,
Oliver
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:17:39 -0500, Mark Spencer wrote:
> Asterisk Users:
>
> I've been working hard on app_voicemail2 which is an enhanced
scalability
> version of app_voicemail. Specifically, its features are:
>
> * Highly improved internal architecture (maybe someone else can
> actually code on it)
> * Foot print for getting mailboxes from DB (for Vonage)
> * Segmentable mailboxes, allowing you to truly multihost
> voicemail for multiple companies
> * Reads voicemail.conf only on startup and reload
>
> I'd really like people to help bang on it by replacing VoiceMail and
> VoiceMailMain in your config with VoiceMailMain2 and VoiceMail2 and try to
> make sure that it all works nicely for you.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>
Somthing that would be nice is to be able to configure the subject and body of the email that is sent to the user when they recieve a voicemail from the conf file.. Even better would be if this could be done per voicemail context seeing as the structure now supports multiple voicemail contexts..> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:17:39 -0500, Mark Spencer wrote: > > > Asterisk Users: > > > > I've been working hard on app_voicemail2 which is an enhanced scalability > > version of app_voicemail. Specifically, its features are: > > > > * Highly improved internal architecture (maybe someone else can > > actually code on it) > > * Foot print for getting mailboxes from DB (for Vonage) > > * Segmentable mailboxes, allowing you to truly multihost > > voicemail for multiple companies > > * Reads voicemail.conf only on startup and reload > > > > I'd really like people to help bang on it by replacing VoiceMail and > > VoiceMailMain in your config with VoiceMailMain2 and VoiceMail2 and try to > > make sure that it all works nicely for you. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze
Way cool. I understand about the mp3 voice stuff. Thanks for the pronto fixes. Dave P>>> Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com> 5/11/2003 12:35:09 AM >>> > can we use MP3 file compression for voicemail? at least the email > attachments?Forgetting the patent issues related to MP3 compression, both MP3 and Vorbis are poor formats for storing voice because the formats were not designed to be vocoders.> and can you add the suggestions i had about checking for the ".wav49" > file extensions for gsm encoded files and truncating them to just > ".wav" so that windows clients can play them? windows does not > recognize the wav49 file extension for auto playback..It's already fixed in voicemail2 (feel free to check) Mark
>> The other, and this one isn't commonly done so it must be hard, would be >> to skip forward or backwards through the old messages more than one at a >> time. I have this little anomaly where if I'm retrieving mail remotely >> sometimes the tones don't get heard quite right, and it disconnects. So >> if I was just listening to a message, then now that message is an "old" >> message, and it's at the end of the list.also sometimes callers just dont speak clear/loud enough & you miss what a caller is saying its not just a tone detect issue that requires navigating Old msg's> Would it be hard to have a > menu option that would allow the user to jump to a given message number, > or perhaps have an option to go most-recent to least?I second, & thrid .. this feature request if I have not cleaned out my old msg & its a Royal PITA to use the hand set to navigate the Old msg BUT I luv to be able to key a Old msg number, or skip to last msg, then do to Next-1 at a time, previous-1 at a time, Fast Fwd, Fast Rewind would solve this issue on the hand set
Mark, I think I have found a bug in the voicemail2, my CVS is from this morning so its about 12 hours old and you may have fixed this already so if you have then please ignore this message.. The problem is to do with changing passwords.. You said that the new module does not re-read the voicemail.conf file so when the new password is written to the file it is not re-read and so the new password does not take effect.. maybe it should re-read the voicmail.conf file whenever a password change is made.. Later.. -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze
> I think I have found a bug in the voicemail2, my CVS is from this > morning so its about 12 hours old and you may have fixed this already > so if you have then please ignore this message..Just fixed it now after getting your message. Please test and let me know off-list. Mark
That would be nice..... then we could migrate in our OCTEL users with less pain. :) and our ROLM users etc..... be able to match the exact keys for the other systems and leave the unused key to access other cool stuff I also like the idea of being able to modify the email and maybe adding an url to the exact message or at least the webmail server etc?? Dave>>> mailinglists@websitemanagers.com.au 5/11/2003 9:53:28 PM >>>Anyone considered making the voicemail buttons customisable in the conf file? This would make it easier for people who are moving from a different voicemail system to keep the same buttons for the same option as the old system. Perhaps something like: exten => 1,PlayMessage exten => 4,PreviousMessage,1 exten => 5,PausePlayback exten => 6,NextMessage,1 exten => 7,DeleteMessage exten => 9,ExitSystem with different 'contexts' for the different 'modes'... ie, the above would be for 'PlayMessage' but you might have another section for Options and another for Folders etc... Regards, Adam> > I'm not sure what is supposed to happen at Main prompt when one presses > > "3" (Advanced Options) it just starts repeating options again. > > > > I never used this feature under the older voicemail system, so maybe > > it's not supposed to do anything yet? > > It's not used on Asterisk. We could make it "goto message" potentially, > but if we think there might be more things, we should make it go to > another menu. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
** I have done this Today ** I sent this request to thevoice.digium.com ************************* "Advanced Options" "Press 1 to jump to a specific message" "or, press * to return to the main menu." "Jump to which message?" "No such message" ************************ maybe some one at digium could ammend the request b4 it goes to Allison so that we get this right ??? -----Original Message----- From: Brian Capouch <brianc@palaver.net> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Date: May 12, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail2>steve wrote:> On Sunday 11 May 2003 17:28, Mark Spencer wrote: >> >>>I'll implement the "jump to a specific message" piece, so long as >>>someone purchases, orders, and sends me the recordings for: >>> >>> "Advanced Options" >>> "Press 1 to jump to a specific message" >>> "or, press * to return to the main menu." >>> "Jump to which message?" >>> >>>and possibly: >>> >>> "No such message" >>> >>>(although it might be better to just jump to the last message if >>>someone enters a message number too high). >> >> >> If you do the latter can you then please say "last message is #" >> before the jump? >> > > >I will be glad to spring for the cost of the recordings, if no one elsehas.> >Mark, could you coordinate that? I'm good for whatever it will cost. >I'm not real swift with that web interface to get the recordings done. > >Thx. > >B. > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com> writes:> I've been working hard on app_voicemail2 which is an enhanced scalability > version of app_voicemail. Specifically, its features are:Does it still store the password in voicemail.conf? If so, PLEASE consider changing that, as auto-generating that file from a script is a PITA since it changes, and there seems to be no command line utility to add or change a mailbox. --Michael
Using voicemail2 I dont get attachments anymore. its config says to attach. am I missing something? I updated the conf file to the new style and am using default VM contect any ideas? [root@asterisk asterisk]# cat voicemail.conf ; ; Voicemail Configuration ; [general] ; Default formats for writing Voicemail ;format=g723sf|wav49|wav format=wav49|gsm ; Who the e-mail notification should appear to come from serveremail=RADSVoice ;serveremail=asterisk@linux-support.net ; Should the email contain the voicemail as an attachment attach=yes ; Maximum length of a voicemail message ;maxmessage=180 ; Maximum length of greetings ;maxgreet=60 ; How many miliseconds to skip forward/back when rew/ff in message playback skipms=3000 ; How many seconds of silence before we end the recording maxsilence=10 ; Silence threshold (what we consider silence, the lower, the more sensitive) silencethreshold=128 ; Max number of failed login attempts maxlogins=3 ; ; Each mailbox is listed in the form <mailbox>=<password>,<name>,<email>,<pager_email>,<options> ; if the e-mail is specified, a message will be sent when a message is ; received, to the given mailbox. If pager is specified, a message will be sent there as well. ; [default] 70950 => 1432,Dave Packham,dave@u.e,8014@mobile.att.net 70951 => 1234,Corey Winn,cwinn@u.e,8019@mobile.att.net ;4200 => 9855,Mark Spencer,markster@linux-support.net,mypager@digium.com,attach=no|serveremail=myaddy@digium.com ;4300 => 3456,Ben Rigas,ben@american-computer.net ;4310 => 5432,Sales,sales@marko.net ;4069 => 6522,Matt Brooks,matt@marko.net ;4110 => 3443,Rob Flynn,rflynn@blueridge.net ; ; Mailboxes may be organized into multiple contexts for ; voicemail virtualhosting ; [other] 1234 => 5678,Company2 User,root@localhost
Can anyone point me to information on "the advanced voicemail system" (aka voicemail2). I saw a note that it is not yet part of the standard distribution. What are the features and when/if is it likely to be added to the standard dist.
Nathan
2005-Mar-24 18:59 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] SIP Reinvites or changing the codec mid-call
Is it possible to change the codec for a SIP session, midway through a call? I.E. I wish to start a session off as ULAW, detect a fax (using NVFaxDetect), if one is detected keep the codec as ULAW, if one is not detected change the codec to G723.. I wish to do this transparently (no dialing extra digits, etc...) Thanks! Nathan