Voicemail config in AstDB, or other voicemail.conf "autoconfig" possible?

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I’d like to be able to setup a new voicemail user via AstDB, which is working perfectly fine for all my needs, except voicemail. And I don’t want to get into the whole ODBC/mysql install stuff just for this.

I don’t want to have to open and save the conf file for each new user, and in voicemail.conf, it says:

; NOTE: Asterisk has to edit this file to change a user’s password. This does
; not currently work with the “#include ” directive for Asterisk
; configuration files, nor when using realtime static configuration.

Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I think this only leaves me with the option for making some shell script using awk to insert the new user? Has someone done anything like this before? Or am I missing a really simple trick? I googled first, I promise!

Perhaps MiniVM might be suggested, but it warns me it’s a work in progress, and I’m happy with standard voicemail!

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MiniVM is a work-in-progress that hasn’t been updated in many moons - that means it’s meeting peoples’ needs, or it’s only lightly used.

If Node’s your cup of tea, there a several example voicemail apps in Node on the Asterisk github repo here:
https://github.com/asterisk

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Ideally, I’d like to keep it as light and self-contained as possible, So you’re saying that it’s the static config file or nothing, when it comes to standard voicemail?

Thanks anyway.

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It’s the voicemail.conf file, or it’s extconfig.conf, which means ODBC (MySQL or whatever other backend). app_voicemail doesn’t store its users in AstDB.