From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 20:03:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49AF16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D55343D46 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6461E69A71; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:02:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:02:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Doug Lee Message-Id: <20040604230232.1a2e53b0.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040605024125.GA75770@kirk.dlee.org> References: <20040605024125.GA75770@kirk.dlee.org> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended answering machine software? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:03:23 -0000 Doug Lee wrote: > This is a (slightly edited) repost of a question I asked in February > of 2002, to which I got no answer. I never got round to this > project, but now I wonder if it would be easier to manage... > > I'd like to run something under FreeBSD 4.9 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. I wouldn't mind compatibility with > mgetty+sendfax, but I don't think that's essential. I do have caller > ID and definitely want the system to be able to take advantage of that. > > 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. While it may be overkill, Asterisk is really the software you're looking for: http://www.asterisk.org It'll do everything you need and more. Unfortunately, asterisk's ability to function on FreeBSD is currently limited by a lack of drivers for phone cards. You'd think you could just use standard modems, but not really. There is a lot of work going in to making asterisk work better on FreeBSD, so it's not going to be like this forever. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com