Re: Voicemail via email [Telecom]

ed wrote:

>>> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:55:34 -0600
>>> From: John Schmerold
>>> To: snipped-for-privacy@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
>>> Subject: Single port vmail to wav file [Telecom]
>>> Message-ID:
>>>
>>> I am looking for an answering machine that delivers its voicemail
>>> message via email with wav file attachment. I recognize I could rig
>>> something up with a PC, but don't want all the fuss associated with a >>> PC.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? I want to keep this under $300.
>>> John,
>>
>
>> I use Ring Central to do this. You can pick a phone number in
>> almost any area code/city, and for $10/mo the messages are emailed
>> to you as .wav files.

Ed:

>
>Thank you for the follow-up. I have a 15 year old Intertel system, I
>cannot justify replacing it ...

Problem with my solution is that it's six months and $1,000 out, so if

>someone made a cheap little appliance - not sure why $300 is so
>laughable, when Grandstream makes a nice little PBX for $600, but to
>each his own, I would buy the little appliance, I'd be happy and set
>for another 5 years when the Intertel is dead beyond all recovery.

It stays laughable because you already found some sort of solution for twice what you suggested you want to pay. I bought an Asterisk developer's kit for about $300: [you could] supply your own PC and load the free software. It was a single FXO and FXS on a 4-port frame. In one breath you set conditions and then you sugest solutions that cost 2-3x wha you were hoping for. Note that everybody suggested a software solution on a PC.

Sigh.

Carl, still laughing

I assume that Carl is laughing at himself and not the original poster: at one time or another, we have all found out the hard way that everything costs more when you want it done right.

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