Get Your Email By Telephone: Introducing MailCall for Asterisk

For those that served in the military, there are at least two things you'll probably never forget: the lousy food and mail call. We don't have a solution for the lousy food, but we've got a terrific enhancement for mail call.

 

We've named it MailCall for Asterisk, and it joins dozens of other telephony applications named MailCall with one important difference. Ours is FREE! What do it do? Well, it reads your email messages to you over the telephone. All you have to do is dial up your Asterisk server from any touchtone telephone. Can it handle multiple email accounts? Absolutely.

Do the email accounts have to be on the Asterisk server? Nope. Does it work with POP3 and IMAP mail accounts? Yep. Which email messages can it speak? We've tried it successfully with messages from Yahoo, and HotMail, and Google Mail, and Comcast Mail, and RoadRunner, and Outlook Express, and Notes Mail, and Entourage.

And it works with plain text messages as well as those with attachments although it doesn't deal with the attachments. No, it can't tell you what kind of picture is lurking in your inbox. Maybe someday. If you happen to be running a current version of TrixBox, then deploying MailCall for Asterisk will take you about 15 minutes.

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Written by Dal on July 19th, 2006 with no comments.
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