[Serusers] Using asterisk as a voicemail server with SER

[Samy Touati]

Hi,

I saw messages complaining about no email addresses (even if there was 
one). I saw some postings about this topic and multi-domain, but I 
only have one domain, beside this message appear after a while. 
I'm going to upgrade to 0.8.12 and redo more tests.

But the main issue in my opinion is the lack of IVR to retrieve the 
messages without using a computer.
I'm trying to see if asterisk can support acting as a media server 
only. I want to have ser the sip proxy server where all the phones 
register with and asterisk being  only the voicemail where calls get 
forwarded to from ser when there is failure or the user is  busy.
I don't know if it's feasable, according to what I see so far it 
doesn't look like it support this kind of config. Can you confirm this?

So I'm left with not much option here if I want to have IVR support 
for voicemail:

* Try to implement it in sems, what is your estimate on the complexity 
of this task, do you have any suggestions on tacking this task ?
 
Thanks.

Samy.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Janak <jan at iptel.org>
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Serusers] Using asterisk as a voicemail server with SER

> On 16-12 09:31, Samy Touati wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I installed ser 0.8.11.rc1 along with the sems tied to the same 
> version.> Everything installed fine and was running on the same 
> host with different
> > port numbers.
> > The instability comes from the fact that the ser configured to 
> receive voice
> > calls will just stop answering them after some time.
> > I looked through ethereal and no abnormal messages were generated:
> > I see the invite going to ser-vm on port 5071, if the user is 
> busy or not
> > answering, I see the trying/ringing and the caller hears the 
> ringing. After
> > a timeout the ringing stops and I get a fast busy with a 408.
> > Now restarting ser and ser-vm puts everything back on track, but 
> after a
> > couple of hours I see this behavior again.
> 
>  Sounds strange. Is there any message in the logs of ser ? Ser should
>  log some error messages if it is not working. Could you check 
> that ?
> 
>   Jan.
>