[kwlug-disc] Voicemail by email

[Paul Nijjar]

For voip.ms, here is my best guess, so that other people can point out
my ignorance and have me banned from the Internet: 

- Create a voip.ms account
- Purchase a DID. You probably do not need Emergency 911 if this
  number will never make outgoing calls. 
- In DID Numbers -> Voicemail, make a voicemail account. Enter in the
  following: name, mailbox ID, password, email, attach message to
  email, email attachment format, delete messages after emailed
- In DID Numbers -> Manage DIDs, set the routing to Voicemail. I guess
  you need to choose a DID point of presence, too. The voip.ms docs
  say that you need to keep that server consistent. 

- Now access the voicemail system and record a greeting so that
  Robotic Asterisk Lady won't be greeting the government officials. 

This will cost you $1/month for the DID, plus minutes.

Usually you have to make a "sub-account" in voip.ms so that your DID
can be registered by a device, but I think that is not necessary for
your situation.

- Paul 


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:26:37PM -0400, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> This is primarily for Kwartzlab.  We have to deal with agencies (like the
> government, say) that require us to have a phone number and occasionally
> phone it when it's important enough.  Giving out a single director's phone
> number isn't helpful and getting a phone for the lab that nobody's around
> to answer isn't worth it.
>