asterisk users - Feb 2008 - Attatch monitor recording to a voicemail

Hello All,

Our old Lucent Argent system had a feature whereby when you initiate
recording during a call, it would afterwards send the recording as a
voicemail message to the user who initiated the recording.

We use the automon *1 recording function in asterisk, which allows users
to record a call if necessary on the fly. Unfortunately there doesn't
appear to be an easy way for the user to actually access that
recording.
What I'd like to do is replicate the functionality described above, so
that when the call finishes, asterisk sends a voicemail to the user
containing the monitor recording.

I'm not sure of the best way to achieve this - is there a method I can
use within the asterisk dialplan, or do I need to manipulate the automon
wav file and voicemail directory contents outside of asterisk to put the
recording in the users mailbox?

Thanks,
Ben

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:17 +0000, Ben Willcox wrote:
> We use the automon *1 recording function in asterisk, which allows users
> to record a call if necessary on the fly. Unfortunately there doesn't
> appear to be an easy way for the user to actually access that
> recording.
I've always done this by setting the MONITOR_EXEC channel variable to
point to an external program that takes care of moving the recording to
the proper location so that it can be accessed by the user who made the
recording.  I'll bet if you search for MONITOR_EXEC and
MONITOR_EXEC_ARGS you'll find exactly what you need.

-- 
Jared Smith
Community Relations Manager
Digium, Inc.