Voice Mail in Thunderbird?

We have Asterisk, an Open Source telephony software, and we have Thunderbird an Open Source Mail (and eventually Groupware) Client. Why did it never occur to anyone to integrate those two, by simply adding an integrated Audio Player into the Thunderbird Mail Client?

Then Asterisk could send emails with little soundfiles attached every time a voicemail is recorded, and the hypothetical user could listen to them right in Thunderbird.

What do you think?

Cheers
-Richard

3 Responses to “Voice Mail in Thunderbird?”

1. thomas Says:
   November 6th, 2008 at 16:43

   If you need something like this, it should be possible to write a Thunderbird addon for it.
   In fact, that is what the addon concept of Thunderbird/Firefox is about - to provide a small percentage of users with functionality considered useful by them, but not required by a majority of users.

   Of course the miniplayer would be useful, but I haven’t experienced it as very cumbersome to have an external player play attached audio files upon doubleclicking them.

2. Pete Says:
   December 14th, 2008 at 3:12

   I used to work for a company and we’d payed for a service in the US that would take calls from anywhere, record the voicemail message and email a zipped wav file to an email address we configured in the control panel for their site. It was REALLY useful. I wonder if the same thing exists still…

   It would be great to rig this up with Asterisk. I wonder if it can also do full call centre phone call recording. Store every phone call,etc.

3. oracle Says:
   December 14th, 2008 at 11:01

   With asterisk this is certainly possible, just look at the following guide that a friend of mine did, for recording podcasts in an asterisk conference room:
   Howto setup Asterisk for recording a podcast over the Internet

   Cheers
   -Richard

4. Chad Garrett Says:
   September 24th, 2009 at 16:21

   Did you ever find/write an add-on for this? I sure would like it for my voicemail too!

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