asterisk users - Apr 2011 - Is it possible to dial an automated message when Asterisk receives an email?

Hello.

I have a server that sends a preformatted email when an event occur. What I
need is that when Asterisk receives this email automatically dial a
pre-recorded message. It doesn't have to dial ride away, maybe a scheduled
cron job will be enough.

Is that possible? Any hint? What should I be looking for?


Thanks, and sorry for my lousy English

-- 
Berm?dez Rafael
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You could use a procmail recipe to create a call file and then move it
to the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing directory.
Below is a untested example .procmailrc:

:0:
* ^To.trigger at example.com
| /usr/local/bin/callout.sh

where callout.sh would look like this perhaps:

!/bin/bash
sleep 5
CALL="callout.call";
echo channel: LOCAL/NUMBER at pstn-local > /tmp/$CALL;
echo context: ivr-call-out >> /tmp/$CALL;
echo exten: s >> /tmp/$CALL;
echo priority: 1 >> /tmp/$CALL;

echo mv /tmp/$CALL /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing
done


Again all untested writing by the seat of my pants type stuff.

2011/4/2 Rafael Berm?dez <r.n.bermudez at
gmail.com>:
> Hello.
>
> I have a server that sends a preformatted email when an event occur. What I
> need is that when Asterisk receives this email automatically dial a
> pre-recorded message. It doesn't have to dial ride away, maybe a
scheduled
> cron job will be enough.
>
> Is that possible? Any hint? What should I be looking for?
>
>
> Thanks, and sorry for my lousy English
>
> --
> Berm?dez Rafael
>
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Rafael Berm?dez wrote:
> I have a server that sends a preformatted email when an event occur. 
> What I need is that when Asterisk receives this email automatically dial 
> a pre-recorded message. It doesn't have to dial ride away, maybe a 
> scheduled cron job will be enough.
Procmail, call files and a little scripting would be one approach.

Can you take a step back up the chain and have your server:

) Execute the script to create the call file?

) Create the call file on a shared drive?

) Connect to Asterisk via AMI to originate the call?
> Thanks, and sorry for my lousy English
Probably much better than my <whatever part of the world you are in>ish.

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