asterisk users - May 2005 - Interrupting voicemail with "*", dropping to "a" extension. Does it work?

I've played around with the lightly documented Asterisk voicemail
feature whereby a caller can press "*" during the playback of the OGM
and be returned to the "a" extension in the context of the voicemail
box.

No matter what, Asterisk does nothing when you press "*". It does not
interrupt the OGM and it certainly does not return to the "a" context.

Watching the console there is no indication of any key press.

Has anyone ever got this working?

Is there an undocumented setting in asterisk someplace which enables
this feature?

-- 
John Lange
President OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872
VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location

Just got done testing this:)

* drops into a for me every time on 1.0.7

Pressing 0 does nothing however and that is what my customers wish to 
use


On May 12, 2005, at 6:26 PM, John Lange wrote:
> I've played around with the lightly documented Asterisk voicemail
> feature whereby a caller can press "*" during the playback of the
OGM
> and be returned to the "a" extension in the context of the
voicemail
> box.
>
> No matter what, Asterisk does nothing when you press "*". It does
not
> interrupt the OGM and it certainly does not return to the "a"
context.
>
> Watching the console there is no indication of any key press.
>
> Has anyone ever got this working?
>
> Is there an undocumented setting in asterisk someplace which enables
> this feature?
>
> -- 
> John Lange
> President OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872
> VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location
>
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John Lange wrote:
>I've played around with the lightly documented Asterisk voicemail
>feature whereby a caller can press "*" during the playback of the
OGM
>and be returned to the "a" extension in the context of the
voicemail
>box.
>
>No matter what, Asterisk does nothing when you press "*". It does
not
>interrupt the OGM and it certainly does not return to the "a"
context.
>
>Watching the console there is no indication of any key press.
>
>Has anyone ever got this working?
>
>Is there an undocumented setting in asterisk someplace which enables
>this feature?
>
>  
>
Have you tried to set dtmf to rfc2833???


bye

Ronald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lange [mailto:john.lange@open-it.ca]
> So to make "*" work you must have:
> 
> [voicemail]
> exten => a,1,VoiceMailMain()
> 
> Does this make sense to anyone?
I think it uses whatever context the current voice mailbox is defined in, in
voicemail.conf.