Summary: | ASTERISK-14147: [patch] Voicemail "greetings only" feature | ||
Reporter: | floletarmo (floletarmo) | Labels: | |
Date Opened: | 2009-05-16 18:15:45 | Date Closed: | 2009-12-14 17:16:02.000-0600 |
Priority: | Major | Regression? | No |
Status: | Closed/Complete | Components: | Applications/app_voicemail/NewFeature |
Versions: | Frequency of Occurrence | ||
Related Issues: | |||
Environment: | Attachments: | ( 0) voicemail_changes.patch | |
Description: | The expected behaviour of a "Greetings only" Voicemail is to play the user's greeting message and to hang up without recording anything. This feature, that exists on some PBX, allows users who don't want voice messages to easely setup a failover announcement. So why using the Voicemail application instead of playing a recording ? Mainly for simpleness reasons: - It gives a unique dialplan entry point to all users (those who wants a recorder and those who don't) when they want to configure their greeting messages. - It keeps the dialplan simple, as the user failover destination is always the Voicemail application. As I didn't find such a feature in the voicemail documentation, my first guess was to set the user maxmsg to zero. Next I looked more closely at app_voicemail.c and realized that zero is not a valid value. So I wrote a small patch for app_voicemail.c to support maxmsg=0 and act as a "Greetings only" VM in the appropriate case. I hope you will find this feature interesting :) ****** ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ****** External references : http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=68773 http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2009-May/038300.html | ||
Comments: | By: Digium Subversion (svnbot) 2009-12-14 17:16:01.000-0600 Repository: asterisk Revision: 234820 U trunk/CHANGES U trunk/apps/app_voicemail.c U trunk/configs/voicemail.conf.sample ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r234820 | tilghman | 2009-12-14 17:16:00 -0600 (Mon, 14 Dec 2009) | 7 lines Allow greetings-only mailboxes for Voicemail. (closes issue ASTERISK-14147) Reported by: floletarmo Patches: voicemail_changes.patch uploaded by floletarmo (license 784) (with some additional changes by me) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=234820 |