25 Oct
2005
25 Oct
'05
3:07 a.m.
Dan Martin wrote:
I want my computer to act as a super answering machine, storing messages as sound files indexed by the number of the caller. I tried some Windows software a while back and bought an external modem to work with it, but it didn't work terribly well.
The Open Source software that will do the job is Asterisk. It is more than an answering machine but a PBX so it may be overkill for what you want.
There is a distro called Asterisk@Home which can get you going pretty quickly.
http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/
There a Muug SIG for Asterisk. It's mail list:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/asterisk
-- Bill