Fetching Your Voicemail from the PC?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday April 27, 2002 @12:10AM from the convergence-indeed dept.

Ben Jackson asks: "I subscribe to the phone company's voicemail offering because it can take messages even when the line is busy. Although I would prefer vgetty, I can't afford to have several lines and a hunt group just to avoid missing calls. What I'm looking for is a tool you could call `fetchvmail' -- it would use a voice modem to retrieve voicemail and forward it on as a MIME attachment. Does anything like this exist?" We already have mgetty-voice and its ilk, why not something like this? Since many phone companies are now providing voice mail with the service, this would be a very useful utility indeed.

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BuzMe by DaoudaW · 2002-04-27 02:03 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm using a commercial service called BuzMe It provides the functionality you request. If you are online you get an instant messenger type pop-up, which gives you the option to accept the call (which would drop your modem), type a response, or let the caller leave a message.

No linux support, but otherwise it works for me.