asterisk users - Sep 2008 - Outside SIP Caller accessing voivemail

Now that we have voicemail working, people have asked to be able to
dial in externally and be able to access their voicemail. My dial plan is
simple, after ringing a few extensions for some time, it goes to voicemail.
What needs to happen to allow for someone to switch out of this into
Voicemailmain in such a fashion that an external inbound caller wouldn't
at least hear the option?

Can the dialplan be setup to listen for a keystroke during the voicemail
line and jump to voicemailmain?

Thanks!
jlc

Press *

On 11 Sep 2008, at 14:31, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Now that we have voicemail working, people have asked to be able to
> dial in externally and be able to access their voicemail. My dial  
> plan is
> simple, after ringing a few extensions for some time, it goes to  
> voicemail.
> What needs to happen to allow for someone to switch out of this into
> Voicemailmain in such a fashion that an external inbound caller  
> wouldn't
> at least hear the option?
>
> Can the dialplan be setup to listen for a keystroke during the  
> voicemail
> line and jump to voicemailmain?
>
> Thanks!
> jlc
>
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Steven,
Appreciate the info but there must be something I missing as a
prerequisite to this feature. It has no effect at any point during the
call and message?

Thanks!
jlc

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Now that we have voicemail working, people have asked to be able to
> dial in externally and be able to access their voicemail. My dial plan is
>   
You can either setup a context for just checking voice mail or you can 
use the following option under the voice mail application:

core show application voicemail
<snip>

   0 - Jump to the 'o' extension in the current dialplan context.
   * - Jump to the 'a' extension in the current dialplan context.
      This application will set the following channel variable upon 
completion:
        VMSTATUS - This indicates the status of the execution of the 
VoiceMail
               application. The possible values are:
               SUCCESS | USEREXIT | FAILED

So, in your voice mail context you'd have:

exten => a,1,VoiceMailMain(@sip)
exten => a,n,HangUP()

When the user presses the *, they'd be dumped into voice mail main, in 
the sip context.

Doug

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