asterisk users - Jul 2006 - Automatic deletion of voicemail messages older than N days?

Hi,

I am using Asterisk 1.2.4 on a Debian GNU/Linux server. I am looking
for a simple way to automatically delete all voicemail messages older
than a certain number of days for a given mailbox number. For example,
I want to be able to delete all voicemail messages older than 7 days
for telephone number 201. I can delete the messages like this:

find /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/201/INBOX/msg????.* -ctime
+7 -exec rm {} \;

but I need a way of renaming the remaining files, so they are numbered
correctly - Asterisk always expects the first voicemail message to be
called msg0000.WAV, the second message is msg0001.WAV etc. Anybody got
any suggestions for an easy (and elegant!) way of doing this?

Thanks,

Sami
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Our PhoneXpress VM system replaces the old voicemail with a short "your
message was stored too long and was removed" recording.
You may be able to copy a symlink over the old message linking to one common
recording like above.

As long as asterisk(comedian mail) only deletes the symlink, not the above
recording, then the cleanup is managed by the
use/asterisk.

The benefits of above are:

The use is told that the message was deleted.
The user still gets the message header with callerID, etc.
This reminds the user that there is a limit.
This save you disk space by symlinking to 1 common deleted recording message.


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Steven

http://www.glimasoutheast.org



"Sami Knudsen Al-Sayed" <supersambo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d23ae820607311159r78448362w20cb9428728d072f@mail.gmail.com...
Hi,

I am using Asterisk 1.2.4 on a Debian GNU/Linux server. I am looking
for a simple way to automatically delete all voicemail messages older
than a certain number of days for a given mailbox number. For example,
I want to be able to delete all voicemail messages older than 7 days
for telephone number 201. I can delete the messages like this:

find /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/201/INBOX/msg????.* -ctime
+7 -exec rm {} \;

but I need a way of renaming the remaining files, so they are numbered
correctly - Asterisk always expects the first voicemail message to be
called msg0000.WAV, the second message is msg0001.WAV etc. Anybody got
any suggestions for an easy (and elegant!) way of doing this?

Thanks,

Sami



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