[Techtalk] Voice Mail on Linux

[Andrea Landaker]

> I have a Windoze app (IVM) I use as my answering machine... phone line
> connected to internal modem; IVM answers, plays pre-recorded message,
> records incoming message as .wav file and forwards .wav to local email
> server.
> I'm in the process of moving all server/network style functionality to
> Linux... so I either need a good Windows emulator that will let me run IVM
> on Linux or I need a native Linux app that will give me the same level of
> functionality.

Mgetty (http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/) should do everything you want -- 
vgetty is the extension that comes with it that does answering machine type 
stuff.  There's also a webmin module to help you set everything up.  We're in 
the process of setting this up for ourselves, so we might be able to answer 
questions about it.  :-)

-- 
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/