Frank Cox wrote: > I have an interesting little project here. I want to monitor a phone line and > answer the phone after X rings during business hours and immediately > after-hours. Read off the outgoing message, record the incoming message and > then email the wav file (or whatever) to the final recipient. Faxes might be > nice too. > > I could do this with Asterisk, but it seems like massive overkill (and a > helluva lot of setup) for such a simple job. > > After doing some googling around, it appears there are several ways that I > could go about this. Does anyone have any suggestions for the *best* aproach? > > Also, does anyone have any recommendations for which modem I should be > purchasing for this purpose? > Take a look at the vgetty package. It will do what you want. There are also some front-ends for the vgetty packages make using it more user friendly. Doing a search for vgetty at http://freshmeat.net will get you a list of some of them. As for modems, you may want to look at: http://mgetty.greenie.net/modembase/bin/overview.pl?language=en Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
