asterisk users - Sep 2003 - Unified Messaging Support ?

On Tue, 1 Sep 2003, Tarun  Banka wrote:
> One quick question. Does anyone has experience implementing 
> unified messaging (UM) using Asterisk. Does Asterisk has support 
> for UM ?
Not really. Half of it works. If you mean by UM (Voicemail integrated to
your email box, and then send an SMS/Page etc to you) then its all doable.  

The problem happens when you want to bring fax into the picture.  That
cannot be handled currently, as in, * can't take a fax, and route it to
your email as a PDF.

But, you could use a third-party fax thingamajig and I'm sure connect it 
to * for a good UM solution. 

--
wasim

Hello,

One quick question. Does anyone has experience implementing 
unified messaging (UM) using Asterisk. Does Asterisk has support 
for UM ?

Thanks,
Tarun
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HylaFAX needs to connect to a modem, and the modem in turn needs to
connect to a phoneline.  This phoneline has to be "real" so you
can't
use a dummy driver.  The TDM400P or T100P/E100P/T400P/TE410P+channel
bank would be the only suitable (and supported) choices for analog modem
connections.

-wade

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Goodman [mailto:lee.goodman@comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:24 PM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Unified Messaging Support ?
> 
> Do the ports have to be real (like XP100) or can you use the ztdummy
(the
> dummy zapatel driver) for the ports required for hylafax?
> 
> Lee Goodman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Bielicki"
<Michael.Bielicki@Global-Gateway.net>
> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Unified Messaging Support ?
> 
> 
> > On Monday 01 September 2003 4:28 am, wasim@convergence.com.pk wrote:
> > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2003, Tarun  Banka wrote:
> > > > One quick question. Does anyone has experience implementing
> > > > unified messaging (UM) using Asterisk. Does Asterisk has
support
> > > > for UM ?
> > >
> > > Not really. Half of it works. If you mean by UM (Voicemail
integrated
> to
> > > your email box, and then send an SMS/Page etc to you) then its
all
> doable.
> > >
> > > The problem happens when you want to bring fax into the picture.
That
> > > cannot be handled currently, as in, * can't take a fax, and
route
it
> to
> > > your email as a PDF.
> > >
> > > But, you could use a third-party fax thingamajig and I'm sure
connect
> it
> > > to * for a good UM solution.
> > Just pass it to hylafax and you fly, but it requires some planning
cause
> you
> > will need ddouble the amount of ports plus the fax devices for
hylafax
> > >
> > > --
> > > wasim
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