Linux Telephony - some good answers (Score 1)

I've been using mgetty+sendfax/vgetty for about three years. There has been a flurry of new code recently; the new version of vgetty is highly scriptable, and I've haven't even scratched its potential. Look up:

http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/index.html
http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/index.html

I've been using 1.1.20, with the ZyXel 1496E+ .
I use it for voicemail, incoming logins (i.e. data) and faxes (in and out). Since I work at two locations connected at T1 speed, I like being able to hear my voice messages at each place. And I can also dial it up like a standard answering machine to hear my messages (that I have to re-configure).
I have a number of users who dial in to read their e-mail and do some (slow...) surfing; ppp works
well. The current vgetty appears to be quite stable, and doesn't slip into recording white noise instead of voice as much. My PII-350 box runs Slackware 3.6.

What I would REALLY like to see is a voice-mail system which can connect a voice channel over the LAN to another CPU selected according to the tones punched in by a caller. That sort of thing has been developed for MS ...