asterisk users - Dec 2006 - is it possible to use Asterisk voicemail as anouncement system only?

Hello,

we are using asterisk in combination with the voicemail system. I?m just
wondering if it is possible to switch the voicemail to an "I am on
holiday" mode.

This means that the unavailable message is played to the caller but no
possability to record a message.

So far I did not find an option in the voicemail.conf for this.

Any ideas except creating my own ivr menu ?

best regards
Michael

On 12/15/06, Michael Hamann <mail@mhamann.net>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are using asterisk in combination with the voicemail system. I?m just
> wondering if it is possible to switch the voicemail to an "I am on
> holiday" mode.
>
> This means that the unavailable message is played to the caller but no
> possability to record a message.
>
> So far I did not find an option in the voicemail.conf for this.
>
> Any ideas except creating my own ivr menu ?
>
> best regards
> Michael
What happens if you use the "maxmsg" variable in voicemail.conf and
set it to 0 or 1? Don't know if there's a minimum limit, the max is I
think 9999 and default is 100. Maybe there's a built-in vacation mode
feature but I don't know about it.

HTH
\R

> we are using asterisk in combination with the voicemail system. I?m just
> wondering if it is possible to switch the voicemail to an "I am on
> holiday" mode.
Just use Play(recordedmsg) instead of voicemail