Just a quick update:
Installed FreePBX and dahdi drivers last week. Settled one issue with /administrator ReWriteRule via email with Daniel. Didn't have time to go on site and make the PSTN connection until Sunday. Spent several hours learning about hardware configuration and dahdi
. I found a lot of useful info here:
http://www.cadvision.com/blanchas/Asterisk/Found out that the unused FXO card in our system is an X100P...didn't know until googling that it was evil/basically unsupported. Anyway, I pushed through and so far have a working voicemail system
. There is still a lot to learn and understand...the two top concerns right now are:
1.) I had to add the following manually in order to get Asterisk to see my single channel:
In /etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf:
[channels]
#include dahdi-channels.conf
I think that there should be templating involved here and I have a small amount of custom template experience but I didn't want to just start guessing until I hear from some of you about whether or not this modification should even need to be made. The change stays on reboot but I'm guessing may be lost during future updates.
2.)The other problem I'm sorting out is getting voicemail emails to the outside world via Asterisk. Things work great locally but qmail-send is sending the emails as "Return-Path: <anonymous@mydomain.local>" (not really our network name...just an example) and outside mail servers are rejecting them. I have found a lot of info on the web about this common issue and I know about voicemail.conf, etc. but I haven't started fiddling with that yet. I plan to sort through the advice that's out there but any Contrib/SME specific advice would be welcomed.
Thanks for the encouragement and support!