This project is a personal experimental "as is" lab/R&D effort to address the current limitation on sending email notifications of inbound Google Voice voicemail messages to only one registered and validated email address (attached as a single Google account) through the use of free hosted services, APIs, and tools within the Google account and developer ecosystem.

Under a single Google account, this project uses a free Google App Engine application instance (Java servlet and associated libraries), minimal quota time for App Engine compute and network resources, a scheduled cron job available under the App Engine capabilities, App Engine data persistence/storage, an associated Gmail account for sending outbound notifications, unofficial Google Voice RESTful APIs, and right here with Google Code (of course).

This effort results in a self-contained, cloud-hosted process that parses an associated GV inbox on a desired interval for new voicemail messages and generates an outbound notification and inbox summary data to a designated list of email addresses.

Other solutions addressing this need are built around desktop clients, email distribution groups, or similar that require external dependencies and/or local installation and consistent powered up-time to run continually. This solution takes advantage of the free cloud-based services offered by Google to any account user. Compile, configure, deploy, fire, forget.

Read the wiki for more details: ReadmeUsage Notes

... and the related design mind blog article: R&D: "Getting Google To Eat Its Own Dog Food"

Robert Tuttle, Chief Architect, frog design

http://frogdesign.com, Twitter: @frogdesign, @rktut

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