[Freeswitch-users] New Bounty (again): Improved Mod_voicemail Emulation

[Nyamul Hassan]

Voicemail is also of high interest to us.  Can you be more specific on what
you find as "not there" in the current implementation of mod_voicemail?

Regards
HASSAN


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 21:59, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at kriskinc.com>wrote:

> Tim,
>
>  Thanks for replying.
>
>  I'm in contact with someone who has a fairly complete voicemail
> implementation written in LUA.  Hopefully we can work out an
> arrangement to open source that code so we can all work on it and
> adapt it for our needs.
>
>  If everything goes as planned I'd love to have you help out.
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Tim St. Pierre
> <fs-list at communicatefreely.net> wrote:
> >  So, what are your thoughts?
> >>
> > I think I would be interested in helping if I can, as I'm more or less in
> the same boat, with an
> > existing user base on Asterisk.  I would like to make things a little bit
> more configurable (not
> > that they aren't already).
> >
> > I don't have any experience working with C, but I am getting to know LUA,
> PHP, SQL, and a few
> > others. I'm hoping I can do something helpful.
> >
> > I have moved a lot of logic outside of the application and into a lua
> script to do what I want.
> > Here's some of the features I have added.  Let me know if this is
> something we could roll into a new
> > module.
> >
> > -Configurable cause code to greeting mappings
> >
> > This lets you define an alternate greeting that will play if your phone
> is busy, in do not disturb,
> > not registered, etc.  It gives similar functionality to the busy/unavail
> greetings in Asterisk, but
> > with a lot more flexibility.  I also defined a mapping for "vm-direct",
> as on our PBX, you can
> > transfer a call to **EXTEN to go straight to voicemail.  On a NO_ANSWER
> cause, the selected greeting
> > is played, which allows for vacation messages.  If the mappings are set
> in the database, but the
> > alternate greeting hasn't been recorded, it will use the selected main
> greeting, or play "the person
> > at extension ... is unavailable".
> >
> > -Configurable 0 IVR routing
> >
> > I have put a bit more functionality in the 0 routing.  In our Asterisk
> implementation, we had 0 go
> > to reception, and # go to the users cell phone.  A lot of people use
> this.  There isn't a good way
> > to do this in Freeswitch, so we came up with a different option.  In the
> VM config database that we
> > use, I have an IVR enable flag, as well as an extension slot for digits
> 0-9.  If the IVR is
> > disabled, pressing 0 transfers to the extension in the 0 slot.  If the
> IVR is enabled, it uses
> > greeting 9 as the menu, and will let the caller choose an option,
> transferring them to the extension
> > set in the database.  This lets a user do something like this:
> >
> > "You have reached Tim, but I'm away from my desk at the moment.  Please
> leave a message after the
> > tone or press 0 for immediate assistance".
> > ->"For technical support, press 1.  To reach my assistant, press 2.  If
> you would like to try my
> > cell phone, press 3".
> >
> >
> > I would also like to see:
> > An option NOT to delete the voice message when you e-mail it from the vm
> menu.
> > A mechanism to record your name that the dial by name directory module
> can use.
> > An option to skip the message details before you play them.
> >
> > I'm sure there are others.
> >
> > Let me know if you think any of these options are useful.
> >
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