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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      Also, who cares about number of messages instead of total size?

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      • travisdh1T
        travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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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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        • coliverC
          coliver @travisdh1
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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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          • EddieJenningsE
            EddieJennings
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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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            • coliverC
              coliver @EddieJennings
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @EddieJennings
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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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                • EddieJenningsE
                  EddieJennings @coliver
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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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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @EddieJennings
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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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                    • EddieJenningsE
                      EddieJennings
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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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                      • coliverC
                        coliver @scottalanmiller
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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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                        • EddieJenningsE
                          EddieJennings @scottalanmiller
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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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                          • bigbearB
                            bigbear @EddieJennings
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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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                            • bigbearB
                              bigbear @scottalanmiller
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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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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @bigbear
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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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                                • Reid CooperR
                                  Reid Cooper @bigbear
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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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                                  • bigbearB
                                    bigbear @Reid Cooper
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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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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @bigbear
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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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                                      • AdamFA
                                        AdamF @scottalanmiller
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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.

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