The message button can be programmed to dial an extension that checks voicemail
exten => 160,1,Voicemailmain(${CALLERIDNUM})
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:57:41 +0100, Aldo Bergamini <aab.lists@nb-a.com>
wrote:> asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com is believed to have said:
>
> >I don't mean to be rude to everyone who responded to this question,
but
> >I think that everyone is answering the wrong question. The point is
that
> >the message waiting indicator doesn't light up, at all, ever. All
that
> >happens when messages are waiting is that the display blinks and the
> >phone gives a stutter dialtone. That's it. There is no light under
the
> >button - there should be, but there isn't. The "blinking"
phone
> >designers should have put those stupid blinking red leds - that only
> >flash on boot up - under the message button and flashed the display
> >during boot up. But they didn't and we're stuck with it. Such
is life.
> >
> >Stephen R. Besch
>
> I noticed this strange factoid as soon as I got MWI to work.
>
> Does anybody know what then is the use for the message button?
>
> Thanks,
> Aldo
>
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