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Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Stefan Haller <stefan.haller@ascom.ch> wrote:
> > Ich suche verzweifelt nach einem kleinen Tool, mit dem ich Voice Mails
> > verschicken kann.
> 
> Do you want to dial out, and play a voice message ?  Then look into
> mgetty/vgetty 1.1.21, voice/scripts/message.sh

This is what I am looking for. I know that you are the maintainer of
vgetty and I hoped that you would read my posting...

I have to send a voice message to the local police if some alert in our
central application appears. This message should be repeated until the
person on the phone hangs up. Additionally to that, a Fax has to be sent
to the police, too.

Other alarms are sent via Fax or pager to the service personel of the
customer.


> Do you want to discriminate MSN ISDN numbers and have different
> applications (different voicemails, fax, modem, etc) on the same
> modem ?  vgetty supports that too.

I don't understand how I can do that. mgetty has to run as a daemon,
doesn't it?
How can I access the device with a paging application without disturbing
the daemon?

Mgetty itself should not reply to any incoming calls.

We had an application that supported paging and fax, hylafax, but it
does not offer any voice functionality. And it runs as a daemon as well.


> > Leider muss ich aber ueber dasselbe device faxen, pagen und voice mailen
> > koennen. Und jedesmal den daemon zu killen finde ich nicht so toll.
> for voice or receive voice mail calls. Also, ANY software supporting
> *proper* locking protocol will work with mgetty/vgetty. This includes
> minicom, seyon, cu, uucico, ifcico, SMS sending systems, etc. In some
> cases you can even use another fax tool to send out (e.g. efax).

What do you mean with "proper"? What do I have to look for in those
applications?


> > Mein USR Sportster 33.6 Voice wird unterstuetzt. Aber das ganze Progi
> 
> Sportster are usually of very low quality, with reliability varying
> from firmware to firmware.
> 
> I personnally have a ZyXEL 2864I to develop, and on that hardware,
> I get quite good service quality.

For the customer installation, we'll have to buy a new modem.
But for these first testing steps, I'll use the USR. But thanks for your
advice.

The installation will be in the US. We experienced very, *very* bad line
quality there.
Data Modems over the public phone network (PSTN) reached data transfer
ratios around 4800bps at most(!), depending on their geographical
location. Could that have any serious effects on the application itself?

Merci.

Gruss
 Stefan