Qu: How to detect Voice Mails?

[sasha]

Hi guys - does anyone know how to detect if there are unheard (or any) voice mails left for the phone? Ie, how do we detect number of voicemails etc?

Thanks muchly!

[sad_ghost]

Dear sasha,
there is no phisical voice mail on your PocketPC.
This is a service provided by the mobile operator.
If you activate this service an inbox is created for you on the mobile operator's server, so that when you miss a call you'll get a notification through an SMS that you missed it and a vocal message is stored for you on the server and you can listen to it.
Ok moving forward if you wish to write an app a suggestion would be to write an SMS filter (based on the MAPI RULE sample from the SDK) and count the ones coming from the voice mail number do a log display their number in a plugin

Have fun

Regards,
Raul

[sasha]

Raul, many thanks!

I suspected it was like this, but these SMS - are they invisible to the normal inbox? I mean, I can have an indicator that I have voicemails on the operator, but I don't see any SMS in the Inbox. I guess the OS knows to ignore them?

Thanks, and I love this board!

Sasha

[sad_ghost]

Yes, they are not ment to reside in your inbox - they act like notifications...This happens to all the messages that come "from the network" - you are not able to save them in the inbox (only the option of closing them is available - close meaning "i get it and ok delete it")

Regards,
Raul

[sasha]

Raul, thanks again. So, to clarify - it's not possible to parse through the inbox to find these operator messages - I have to filter the sms as they are coming in? They're not saved on the system anywhere?

Thanks for your time...

Sasha

[sad_ghost]

Hi,
you could try to filter them at a lower level using MAPI RULE filters.
There is a working sample in all the SDK called MAPIRULE. (Its in the WIN32/CPP directory from Samples in the PocketPC part)
You should try to see if the operator messages are filtered there

Good luck,
Raul