Fax notification & answering machine

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Kaare Rasmussen <kar@webline.dk> wrote:
> 2. Can someone point me to an easy guide or FAQ about setting up vgetty
> as an answering machine, I'd just like a simple system that lets me
> record a message that will be played when the phone rings, and then

In theory you just need to use vgetty instead of mgetty, define the
device as voice in mgetty.config, and create a standard.rmd file
in the voice spool (for example in /var/spool/voice/messages/standard.rmd).

Then, messages will be recorded in the directory.

> answering machine. Also the user's message should be limited to 1 or 2
> minutes or so.

#
# Maximum recording length in seconds. Hang up if somebody talks
# longer than this. Default is 5 minutes (300 seconds).
#

rec_max_len 3000

Recent Linux distributions even come with a graphical program
(KVoice) which handles most of this very easily.