asterisk users - Mar 2004 - Asterisk Integration with Evolution.

Everyone--

I filed a bug with ximian against Evolution, in the form of an 
enhancement request for integration with Asterisk.

Have a look:  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55854

It wouldn't hurt to "pile on"! Please, add your own comments,
suggestions, disagreements and clarifications. Or just plain
vote for/against it there. A couple hundred comments might signal
some real interest in such a feature....?

I did a bug search for Asterisk, and didn't find any reference
to Asterisk at all there. What a shame, I thought. I outlined
a "minimum" scenario I'd like to see implemented, and perhaps
you all might violently disagree. 

I didn't mention anything about using databases of users, and
how that might be used in the process of making a call. That's 
for someone with a clearer vision of how that might work.

murf

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 13:12, Steve Murphy wrote:
> I filed a bug with ximian against Evolution, in the form of an 
> enhancement request for integration with Asterisk.
> 
> Have a look:  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55854
Clever.  However rather than needing to actually know what the channel
name is, why not use chan_local?  That way the dial plan will figure out
what channel to use, just like when you dial a phone connected to
Asterisk.  chan_local is VERY, VERY useful.  You can do things like
Dial(Local/95551212) and Asterisk will route the call just as though you
daled the number directly.  This way AGI scripts, .call files and stuff
like that don't need to know what interfaces you have or be told what
interface to route calls matching specific pattern should go to.  You
just Dial(Local/blah) and your dial plan will route the call.

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<quote who="Steve Murphy">
> Have a look:  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55854
Since you don't want Jane magicaly making John dial Claire, there would need
to be individule login authentication that would only allow Jane to dial and
connect her channel.

So, this is not just Evolution hacking.  Asterisk needs a DB + API for enforcing
triple A security.  (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting)

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