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Voicemail to 2 mailboxes

Posted by alasdairgow on Mon, 02/21/2011

We are trying to get Voice mail to go to multiple mailboxes. in the Webmin gui, MTE 6.0.1.81 we are allowed to select more than one recipient for voice mail however the Second mailbox receives a zero size voice mail.

Can anyone suggest whether this is meant to be allowed?

Kind regards
Alasdair


Submitted by eeman on Tue, 02/22/2011 Permalink

no, instead of trying to make asterisk into a mail server; let your mail server be a mail server. Create an alias or distribution list on your mail server that when emailed, redistributes to a list of users. Example

somelist@somedomain.com sends the mail to john@somedomain.com, suzy@somedomain.com, janet@somedomain.com

asterisk will not accept comma separated values because the voicemail.conf entry uses the comma to separate field parameters

Submitted by alasdairgow on Tue, 02/22/2011 Permalink

Thanks for the reply, I thought as much.

I've checked this in 6.1.1.7 which also allows multiple mailboxes to be selected. Should this option be removed if it is not how it works?

Kind regards
Alasdair

Submitted by thirdlane on Thu, 02/24/2011 Permalink

Yes, allowing to select multiple mailboxes is a bug (or rather a limitation, since script definitions don't allow to specify whether multiple objects can or cannot be selected). So until we have that taken care of please don't select multiple mailboxes.