Voicemail - Send to e-mail from database query instead of fixed

Asterisk Asterisk General
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I need to change the e-mail address of an extension when someone leaves in his inbox a voice message, so Asterisk shall send the e-mail to the new address instead of a fixed one.

Is it possible to establish the voicemail address based on a query rather than a fixed parameter?

I’ve been trying to figure out where to input my query, but since the voicemail works with config files (voicemail.conf which includes vm_general.inc and vm_email.inc), I can’t execute a query inside of those.

I haven’t succeeded on checking which process triggers the postfix and sendmail programs since the CLI doesn’t provide that info as well

Regards

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You can use realtime for this, Store your voicemail.conf data in your database backend of choice and configure app_voicemail to look there for it’s config.

Then you can use the odbc function to change the email address.

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Realtime+Database+Configuration

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I think all Unix MTAs will do this, so configure an alias in Asterisk and then configure the MTA to translate that to the real address.

Mail Transport Agent.

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Thanks for the reply. I’m a little bit lost in terms of aliases in Asterisk + managing of postfix and sendmail. Is there any resource where I can check the usage of those?