[kwlug-disc] Voicemail by email

[unsolicited]

No, rule of thumb for voip.ms - ALWAYS do sub-accounts. (Things always 
change, and it's a PITA to retrofit.)

On 14-03-26 09:38 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>
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