mgetty feedback request

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Hi,

John Blair wrote:
> If somebody has the time, I would appreciate some feedback on some
> plans of mine. I'm considering using mgetty+sendfax to setup fax &
> voicemail support on my Linux box. Here's what I want to be able to
> do:
> 
> 1) Answer the phone with a greeting, allowing people to leave a
> message in a voicemail box.

This is definitely possible.

> 2) Allow people to send a fax by sending a touchtone (i.e. "to send a
> fax, press 1").

I'm not sure, but if it isn't possible now, it should be very easy to add.
You might have to write a small vgetty/vm script to do that.

> 3) Record the originating phone number of all calls using caller-id
> (if the originating number is available).

For mgetty, this is already in place. I don't know the voice code paths
well enough to be sure whether vgetty does as well.

> Is this all possible with mgetty+sendfax? From my cursory
> examination of the documents, it looks as if (3) is not possible,
> only screening by number. 

mgetty will log one line for each call, starting with "####", that will
tell you at one glance what happened, and the phone number of the remote,
if known. This line will also go to syslog, and might look like this:

Dec 11 20:21:25 greenie mgetty[16900]: fax dev=tty5d, pid=16900,
caller=898981053, name='', id='Via Fax', +FHNG=000, pages=1, time=00:01:05

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> Additionally, is there a recommended modem for voice mail support?

Marc?

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