asterisk users - Mar 2005 - DTMF to Email

I need some suggestions (not necessarily using Asterisk?) on how to
accomplish the following in the easiest way possible. I would like to have a
~3 prompt VM system, that would ask for some numbers from a caller (case
number, id and another id). It would then take their DTMF presses and format
an email to a predetermined address (i.e. the email always goes to the same
place). I don't really care about the format so much as long as the emails
are the same. I.E

Lets say I enter
VM Prompt 1: 2004123441
VM Prompt 2: 5955
VM Prompt 3: 34

It would format email and send it out something like:

To:updates@example.com
Subject: 2004123441 5955
34

Anyone know of something cheap and easy to handle this problem?

TIA,
--Eric

Asterisk with a simple agi routine could do this easily.


Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Balsa" <ericb@sysdump.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: March 7, 2005 1:02 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] DTMF to Email

> I need some suggestions (not necessarily using Asterisk?) on how to
> accomplish the following in the easiest way possible. I would like to have
a
> ~3 prompt VM system, that would ask for some numbers from a caller (case
> number, id and another id). It would then take their DTMF presses and
format
> an email to a predetermined address (i.e. the email always goes to the
same
> place). I don't really care about the format so much as long as the
emails
> are the same. I.E
>
> Lets say I enter
> VM Prompt 1: 2004123441
> VM Prompt 2: 5955
> VM Prompt 3: 34
>
> It would format email and send it out something like:
>
> To:updates@example.com
> Subject: 2004123441 5955
> 34
>
> Anyone know of something cheap and easy to handle this problem?
>
> TIA,
> --Eric
>
>
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Eric Balsa wrote:
> I need some suggestions (not necessarily using Asterisk?) on how to
> accomplish the following in the easiest way possible. I would like to have
a
> ~3 prompt VM system, that would ask for some numbers from a caller (case
> number, id and another id). It would then take their DTMF presses and
format
> an email to a predetermined address (i.e. the email always goes to the same
> place). I don't really care about the format so much as long as the
emails
> are the same. I.E
> 
> Lets say I enter
> VM Prompt 1: 2004123441
> VM Prompt 2: 5955
> VM Prompt 3: 34
> 
> It would format email and send it out something like:
> 
> To:updates@example.com
> Subject: 2004123441 5955
> 34
> 
> Anyone know of something cheap and easy to handle this problem?
> 
> TIA,
> --Eric
Eric,

	Asterisk could do this very easily:

	exten => s,1,Read(CASENO)
	exten => s,2,Read(ID1)
	exten => s,3,Read(ID2)
	exten => s,4,TrySystem(/usr/bin/mymail ${CASENO} ${ID} ${ID2})
	exten => s,5,Hangup

	Then, /usr/bin/mymail could look like this:

#!/bin/bash

MAILADD=kris@testmail.com

echo -e "$1 \n $3" | mail -s $2 $MAILADD

	The output mail should look like this (with $1 - 3 filled in with the 
values from above):

To: kris@testmail.com
Subject: $2

$1
$3

--
Kristian Kielhofner