Voice_mail Script

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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Paul Boehm wrote:
> 
> If anyone has this script working or another so that you can setup an
> incoming answering system with multiple mailboxes and retrieve messages
> remotely using several different .codes I'd really appreciate any
> advice.

Hi !

I started writing something along those lines above. My version of
Marc's dtmf.sh is supposed to enable the caller to leave a message for
a particular user as a MIME email. The destination userid is entered
as the numeric uid from /etc/passwd. The script also contains comments
explaining how to set up your favourite MIME e-mail agent, e.g. pine,
to play back messages received in this way (it is _very_ simple). The
script is not designed to enable calling users retrieving messages
individually, so it implements only a part of the requirements stated
above.  Unfortunately, I never came round to testing my script as I
got involved in other activities and also because I had to realise
that my Rockwell chipset doesn't honour the stop-recording request by
the DTE reliably. It is COMPLETELY untested and thus almost certainly
not functional at all. The script is supposed to allow the supercaller
who knows the code in $VOICE_DIR/.code to also go through all the
received messages (those that were deposited without specifying a
particular recipient by his numeric uid) individually, delete
individual ones, etc. The supercaller is also supposed to be able to
switch vgetty into different answer modes, i.e.  data:fax. This latter
part is only a stub, the actual switching code is not written yet (it
will involve sending a request to vgetty and should be dead easy, have
a look into the source code of shell.c in the voice directory tree of
the latest beta release). 

If anyone is interested in the script, I'd be happy to send it out to
them individually. As it is 18k bytes long I considered it better not
to just send it out to everyone.

Regards,

 Peter Jaeckel