5 thoughts on - AppVoicemail Overwrites Voicemail.conf

• passwordlocation = spooldir

  Read voicemail.conf about how to use it.

• passwordlocatio seems to be related to vmsecret

  from voicemail.conf sample :

  ; passwordlocation=spooldir
  ; Usually the voicemail password (vmsecret) is stored in
  ; this configuration file. By setting this option you can
  ; specify where Asterisk should read/write the vmsecret.
  ; Supported options:
  ; voicemail.conf:
  ; This is the default option. The secret is read from
  ; and written to voicemail.conf (or users.conf).
  ; spooldir:
  ; The secret is stored in a separate file in the user’s
  ; voicemail spool directory in a file named secret.conf.
  ; Please ensure that normal Linux users are not
  ; permitted to access Asterisk’s spool directory as the
  ; secret is stored in plain text. If a secret is not
  ; found in this directory, the password in
  ; voicemail.conf (or users.conf) will be used.
  ; Note that this option does not affect password storage for
  ; realtime users, which are still stored in the realtime
  ; backend.

  but the issue i was explaining was voicemail.conf getting overwritten apparently by appvoicemail

  On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Paul Belanger

• looking more into this, looks like this is not a issue, its related to users changing voicemail password from handset, asterisk rewrites the file.

• Right, use passwordlocation = spool, create a secret.conf for each mailbox, now when a user changes their password, secret.conf gets updated not voicemail.conf.

• yes, thanks you!

  On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Paul Belanger