Voice to web gateway

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I'm new to the list. Did the proper search on Alta Visa and have not
uncovered this topic from past discussions, so here goes : (
incidentally, the Webglimpse search on  http://www.elilabs.com/mgarc/
seems to be broken. I cannot get it to return anything, even when I use
a single search criteria like 'fax' that I would expect to occur often.

I use my Linux box as a home sever. It does IP Masq and fetchmail /
sendmail. We have two W95 boxes networked to it, retreiving mail off it
via POP.

I wanted incoming fax and voice stuff, so started with the defaults and
emailed the resulting .wav file to the machines. Nice, but I wanted
something more sophisticated with 2 mailboxes for my and my wife. Looked
at MVM but that was way more than I needed.

Finally ended up writing my own answer machine script that emails the
message to my wife, to me or both of us depending on whether the caller
presses 1, 2 or nothing during the messages. Simple.

Now I want to take this a step further, with two gateways, or front ends
:

1. I want to write a web gateway that lists all voice mails on a web
page, and allows the user to play and delete them. Not really hard, but
I am new to Linux and scripting / perl / CGI etc.

2. I will also extend my mgetty script so I can check my messages from a
telephone using DTMF codes. I can probably pull good stuff from MVM and
hack something together.

The web frontend is more difficult for me, since I lack the CGI
experience.

OK, so my question :

Has anyone already written a mail-to-www gateway that I can use, or use
part of in implementing my own ? I had thought of using Neko's fax
gateway as the basis, since I'm a total CGI newbie. I don't even know
how to display a list of files onto a web page and have buttons that
perform actions.

Second, what about the DFMF interface ? Anyone done this already ?


Thanks in advance



John M