asterisk users - Mar 2004 - Voicemail has hard-coded limit of 100 messages?

I got bit by this today and was surprised to see the limit of a measly 
100 messages hardcoded into voicemail.  Is that right or am I missing 
something?

Obviously, this should be moved to voicemail.conf.  Does anyone know if 
there's a reason why this hasn't been done, or if there's already a
bug
ID for it (I looked but didn't find one).

On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:09, Matt Lawson wrote:
> I got bit by this today and was surprised to see the limit of a
> measly 100 messages hardcoded into voicemail.  Is that right or am
> I missing something?
It's related to a memory allocation during VoiceMailMain.  If you
increase that number, you will be increasing the amount of memory
used by that application.  It's not necessarily deleterious on the
performance of Asterisk, but the limit had to be set somewhere (and
100 is more than enough for most installations).

Perhaps what you really should be asking is, "why am I receiving more
than 100 messages between the times when I check my voicemail, and
what can I do to either decrease that number or arrange for voicemail
to be checked more often?"

-Tilghman

Ah, so in a normal Asterisk world, the messages are supposed to be moved 
to another dir.?

In our deviant Asterisk world, the voicemails are never checked through 
the phone, only through a custom web interface, so they stay in INBOX 
until they're deleted.  Thus they collect quickly to over 100 total.
>Perhaps what you really should be asking is, "why am I receiving more
>than 100 messages between the times when I check my voicemail, and
>what can I do to either decrease that number or arrange for voicemail
>to be checked more often?"
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