VoIP Hacks: Build a Standalone Voicemail Server in Less Than a Half-Hour

Asterisk comprises many quality applications, and voicemail is one of them. In fact, Asterisk is perhaps best known for the feature set of its voicemail system. In this section, the paper demonstrates how one can harness Asterisk's extremely powerful voicemail application in 30 minutes or less. This way, everybody in the house (or your office) can have a customized voicemail greeting and message recorder, even if they don't have a desktop phone. Think of this as a road-warrior voicemail solution.