Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning
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@eddiejennings said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
With Altigen, I had to generate a report, which happened to include the number of messages stored in a user's mailbox, find users who were above whatever threshold set by On High, and send them an E-mail saying "clean your voice mailbox."
Out of curiosity does this matter? On an appliance system that you can't easily add storage to I understand this but on a system that you can add storage to, and voicemail takes up so little, it seems like this wouldn't be that big of a deal.
Are your users using Voicemail-to-Email?
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Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?
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Also, who cares about number of messages instead of total size?
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@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Also, who cares about number of messages instead of total size?
I'm guessing Those On High, that wouldn't qualify as an intern for @scottalanmiller.
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@travisdh1 said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Also, who cares about number of messages instead of total size?
I'm guessing Those On High, that wouldn't qualify as an intern for @scottalanmiller.
Even then it really doesn't make a lot of sense. Why not just tell them, "We don't have to worry about mailbox size limits anymore."
That being said FreePBX has a hard limit of 9999 minutes of messages in the mailbox. After that is reached it will play a mailbox is full recording.
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The issue isn't storage. The issue is more behavior related. There's the belief of multiple messages living in the inbox = messages aren't being heard / processed.
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@eddiejennings said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
The issue isn't storage. The issue is more behavior related. There's the belief of multiple messages living in the inbox = messages aren't being heard / processed.
So...what you're telling me is this is an HR problem and not an IT problem? To fix it send messages to email and delete immediately from the phone inbox. No more messages in the inbox.
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@eddiejennings said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
The issue isn't storage. The issue is more behavior related. There's the belief of multiple messages living in the inbox = messages aren't being heard / processed.
So the issue is people living in fairyland and just making things up?
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@coliver said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
So...what you're telling me is this is an HR problem and not an IT problem?
Correct.
To fix it send messages to email and delete immediately from the phone inbox. No more messages in the inbox.
Yep. Knowing where that road will lead, I'll be asked such as "how can we know if they're read." There's really no good solution to this, and the whole scenario is an example of trying to solve behavior through [a device not designed to modify behavior].
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@eddiejennings said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@coliver said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
So...what you're telling me is this is an HR problem and not an IT problem?
Correct.
To fix it send messages to email and delete immediately from the phone inbox. No more messages in the inbox.
Yep. Knowing where that road will lead, I'll be asked such as "how can we know if they're read." There's really no good solution to this, and the whole scenario is an example of trying to solve behavior through [a device not designed to modify behavior].
One solution... stop accepting VMs. I don't, there is no reason in the post 2000 world to have voice mails. It's an insane, outmoded concept. It's utterly ridiculous that someone who leave a voicemail in the first place unless they are calling from 1982 to explain how one way time travel is now possible, but they are stuck and can't get back but invested a way to call from the past but not to email from it.
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I ought to have described the real situation up front. I was truly curious if the functionality I described existed, but really the "real" problem isn't one I can solve.
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@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@eddiejennings said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@coliver said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
So...what you're telling me is this is an HR problem and not an IT problem?
Correct.
To fix it send messages to email and delete immediately from the phone inbox. No more messages in the inbox.
Yep. Knowing where that road will lead, I'll be asked such as "how can we know if they're read." There's really no good solution to this, and the whole scenario is an example of trying to solve behavior through [a device not designed to modify behavior].
One solution... stop accepting VMs. I don't, there is no reason in the post 2000 world to have voice mails. It's an insane, outmoded concept. It's utterly ridiculous that someone who leave a voicemail in the first place unless they are calling from 1982 to explain how one way time travel is now possible, but they are stuck and can't get back but invested a way to call from the past but not to email from it.
I like this metaphor.
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@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@eddiejennings said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@coliver said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
So...what you're telling me is this is an HR problem and not an IT problem?
Correct.
To fix it send messages to email and delete immediately from the phone inbox. No more messages in the inbox.
Yep. Knowing where that road will lead, I'll be asked such as "how can we know if they're read." There's really no good solution to this, and the whole scenario is an example of trying to solve behavior through [a device not designed to modify behavior].
One solution... stop accepting VMs. I don't, there is no reason in the post 2000 world to have voice mails. It's an insane, outmoded concept. It's utterly ridiculous that someone who leave a voicemail in the first place unless they are calling from 1982 to explain how one way time travel is now possible, but they are stuck and can't get back but invested a way to call from the past but not to email from it.
Ha!
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@eddiejennings said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Hail, fellow FreePBX admins! Do any of you know of a mechanism that allows for some kind of warning E-mail to be sent to a [recipient] when a user's voicemail inbox reaches X messages?
With Altigen, I had to generate a report, which happened to include the number of messages stored in a user's mailbox, find users who were above whatever threshold set by On High, and send them an E-mail saying "clean your voice mailbox."
But with your user count and a $5 Vultr instance I suppose it could become an issue with the number of users you have.
Are you not doing voicemail to email?
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@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?
Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?
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@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?
Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?
It grows other things too, but it is so cheap to double the storage, it might make sense.
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@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?
Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?
With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.
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@reid-cooper said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?
Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?
With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.
Yeah I guess he is probably in NJ data center. I've only used block storage in winblows server. Not sure how you'd move that location in FreePBX.
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@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@reid-cooper said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?
Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?
With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.
Yeah I guess he is probably in NJ data center. I've only used block storage in winblows server. Not sure how you'd move that location in FreePBX.
LVM
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@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@reid-cooper said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:
Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?
Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?
With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.
Yeah I guess he is probably in NJ data center. I've only used block storage in winblows server. Not sure how you'd move that location in FreePBX.
LVM
Yep, I did this exact thing on a server with Vultr block storage. It is super easy. Purchase it, attach it to the server, create a mount point and mount the new storage device (shows up as another drive), then done.
In FreePBX Advanced settings, you can even specify an alternative destination for voicemails.
