Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
