From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 17 12:30:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.dlee.org (66-61-162-235.mtc3.cox.rr.com [66.61.162.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE80F37B402 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgl@localhost) by kirk.dlee.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1HKU5b06604 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:30:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgl) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:30:05 -0500 From: Doug Lee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recommended answering machine software? Message-ID: <20020217203005.GH1069@kirk.dlee.org> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: Bartimaeus Group Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like to run something under FreeBSD 4.4/4.5 which can make my FreeBSD box act as an answering machine: answer calls, play an outgoing message (presumably a .wav or similar file), and take messages. It would be nice if it also could understand DTMF codes and do different things according to them, like allow messages to be maintained for multiple people. Whether or not it's part of the system, I also intend to cause the message files to be e-mailed appropriately on receipt. Finally, I'm hoping this system will be compatible (with or without a little shell/Perl programming) with mgetty+sendfax, which I already run. Currently, I can't dial into mgetty+sendfax unless I disable my answering machine in advance. I skimmed through ports but didn't find a clear winner for this type of application. I'm also not sure what specific hardware I'd need (I assume not just any modem will do :-), and I suspect this will be dependent on what software I use. Any suggestions welcome. -- Doug Lee dgl@visi.com http://www.visi.com/~dgl Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "Liberty comes in boxes: ballot, jury, and ammo." -Anonymous To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message