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The voicemail situation is especially stupid, since voicemail delivery over SMTP, and IMAP access to voicemail was developed in a consortium back in the 90s, an
by metageek 16y ago
The voicemail situation is especially stupid, since voicemail delivery over SMTP, and IMAP access to voicemail was developed in a consortium back in the 90s, and standardized in the IETF in 2004 [1]. I'm pretty sure it's a standard feature in PBXes these days.
In fact, in 2000, a friend who worked for Openwave told me Sprint voicemail was actually running over Openwave's mail server. When your phone dialed in, the box it was talking to was an IMAP client.
[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vpim https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vpim