asterisk users - Jun 2015 - howto copy a voicemail message to another machine ?

My asterisk server is in the cloud. Figuring out how to send an email is 
too much brain damage. So i can't use the email feature that's built 
into voicemail.

What I want to do is execute a remote command with the voicemail as an 
argument.  The remote machine command would email the message.

I'm thinking of:

same =>n,VoiceMail(vm,u)
same =>n,System(ssh myserver "emailVM 
'_THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_'")

What variables can I use for _THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_

Or is this better done with externcmd in voicemail.conf ?:

externcmd => ssh myserver "emailVM 
'_THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_'"

But same question. And can externcmd take arguments ?

sean

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:35:26 -0400
sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My asterisk server is in the cloud. Figuring out how to send an email
> is too much brain damage. So i can't use the email feature that's
> built into voicemail.
Really?  That was one of the first things I did when I learned
Asterisk.  It was dead simple.  Rather than creating some sort of Rube
Goldberg machine to send email why don't you explain what you tried and
where you ran into problems?

In case it helps, here are my general settings in voicemail.conf:

[general]
attach=yes
maxsilence=10
serveremail=NULL at Vex.Net
format=wav49
fromstring=Vex.Net Voice Mail
nextaftercmd=yes
forcename=yes
pollmailboxes=yes
pollfreq=5

And for each extension I have this (sanitized):

1000 => 1234,D'Arcy,darcy at example.com

That's the extension, PIN, name and email address.

-- 
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
System Administrator, Vex.Net
http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:darcy at Vex.Net
VoIP: sip:darcy at Vex.Net

Check out the "externnotify" parameter in voicemail.conf. What it does
is run an external program whenever a caller leaves a voicemail message for
a user. The way it works is basically any time that somebody leaves a
voicemail on the system (regardless of mailbox number), the command
specified for externnotify is run with the arguments (in this order):
context, extension, new voicemails, old voicemails and urgent voicemails.
These arguments are passed to the program that you set in the externnotify
parameter.
Regards;
John

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My asterisk server is in the cloud. Figuring out how to send an email is too
much brain damage. So i can't use the email feature that's built into
voicemail.

What I want to do is execute a remote command with the voicemail as an
argument.  The remote machine command would email the message.

I'm thinking of:

same =>n,VoiceMail(vm,u)
same =>n,System(ssh myserver "emailVM 
'_THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_'")

What variables can I use for _THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_

Or is this better done with externcmd in voicemail.conf ?:

externcmd => ssh myserver "emailVM 
'_THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_'"

But same question. And can externcmd take arguments ?

sean



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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:35:26AM -0400, sean darcy
wrote:
> My asterisk server is in the cloud. Figuring out how to send an
> email is too much brain damage. So i can't use the email feature
> that's built into voicemail.
Why? If you can ssh between them, you should also be able to route mail
between them. Be that using a custom sendmail command which uses ssh in
it.
> 
> What I want to do is execute a remote command with the voicemail as
> an argument.  The remote machine command would email the message.
> 
> I'm thinking of:
> 
> same =>n,VoiceMail(vm,u)
> same =>n,System(ssh myserver "emailVM 
'_THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_'")
> 
> What variables can I use for _THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_
> 
> Or is this better done with externcmd in voicemail.conf ?:
> 
> externcmd => ssh myserver "emailVM 
'_THE_VOICEMAIL_MESSAGE_'"
> 
> But same question. And can externcmd take arguments ?
rsync the whole mailbox. Should be quick enough.

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On 06/16/2015 11:52 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:35:26 -0400
> sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My asterisk server is in the cloud. Figuring out how to send an email
>> is too much brain damage. So i can't use the email feature
that's
>> built into voicemail.
>
> Really?  That was one of the first things I did when I learned
> Asterisk.  It was dead simple.  Rather than creating some sort of Rube
> Goldberg machine to send email why don't you explain what you tried and
> where you ran into problems?
>
> In case it helps, here are my general settings in voicemail.conf:
>
> [general]
> attach=yes
> maxsilence=10
> serveremail=NULL at Vex.Net
> format=wav49
> fromstring=Vex.Net Voice Mail
> nextaftercmd=yes
> forcename=yes
> pollmailboxes=yes
> pollfreq=5
>
> And for each extension I have this (sanitized):
>
> 1000 => 1234,D'Arcy,darcy at example.com
>
> That's the extension, PIN, name and email address.
>
There's no problem setting up vm on *. I can't use email off the 
instance, since the assigned ip address doesn't have a PTR.

It looks too much like spam. The mail relays drop it.

sean