From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 10 14:10:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13150 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:10:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12908 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14670; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:09:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199804102109.OAA14670@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Open Systems Networking , David Shanes , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:03:52 MDT." <199804102103.PAA03155@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:09:23 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aye, Aye, Captain! I will start working on it this weekend and you can consider it done . Tnks! Amancio > Amancio: > > This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that would get great publicity for > FreeBSD. Imagine being able to say, "Set up a FreeBSD system with > this package, and you'll be able to retrieve your incoming voice mail, > FAX, and e-mail using your browser's e-mail client!" That's enough > motivation to get people to set up a FreeBSD server even if their > desktop machine has to run something like Windows. > > --Brett > > > At 01:20 PM 4/10/98 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >I use mgetty+vgetty to manage my phone. Hylafax has the capability to > >launch vgetty however I have not play with that setup . Usually for > >faxing out I just launch Hylafax and kill vgetty. Perhaps, this > >weekend I will play more with Hylafax to figure out how it > >can launch vgetty when it detects voice. > > > >You can play any greeting message that you like including randomly > >select your greeting message.It should be possible to setup vgetty > >with voice boxes for your favorite contacts . > > > > > >vgetty answers the phone and detects fax or voice. When vgetty gets a voice > >message streams it encapsulates the stream into a mime message then > >it mails to me . This is action is simply performed by a default script > >which vgetty invokes after receiving a voice message. > > My mail reader is exmh a tcl/tk front-end to MH. > > > >I have my exmh setup so that when I click on my voice folder, the voice > >messages are displayed as: > > > > Play attached audio > > > > Save audio file > > > >You click on "Play Attached Audio" and it invokes NCD's network audio player > >which has the capability to go play at any point in the audio stream > >by bracketing the audio stream. > > > >If you like , see : ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/Voice.FAQ it is outdated > >however it will give you an idea of how to set it up. > > > >It is possible to setup vgetty with a voice menu. With the obvious advantage > >that you have a whole OS to play with . > > > > > >If there is interest , I can gather the latest mgetty+vgetty distributions > >and generate a nice user friendly package. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Amancio > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message