asterisk users - Sep 2003 - VoiceMailMain skipping extension and password prompting

I would like to access VoiceMailMain2 skipping extension and password
prompting if calling from a resource that has a mailbox defined. What
variables can I use to retrieve the calling channel & calling extension (if
it exists)?

Here is what I'm trying to accomplish (of course ${CallingResourse.MailBox}
is not a real way to retrieve this info)...

exten => 7799,1,gotoif(${CallingResourse.MailBox}?7799|2:7799|4)
exten => 7799,2,VoicemailMain2(s${CallingResourse.MailBox})
exten => 7799,4,VoicemailMain2

... currently extensions.conf is ...
exten => 7799,1,VoicemailMain2

... and from zapata.conf ...
callerid="TCC hcaar" <321-222-2553>
mailbox=7731
channel=19

Any suggestions?

John Harragin


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Hi,

At 12:13 25-9-2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I would like to access VoiceMailMain2 skipping extension and password
>prompting if calling from a resource that has a mailbox defined. What
>variables can I use to retrieve the calling channel & calling extension
(if
>it exists)?
>
>Here is what I'm trying to accomplish (of course
${CallingResourse.MailBox}
>is not a real way to retrieve this info)...
>
>exten => 7799,1,gotoif(${CallingResourse.MailBox}?7799|2:7799|4)
>exten => 7799,2,VoicemailMain2(s${CallingResourse.MailBox})
>exten => 7799,4,VoicemailMain2
>
>... currently extensions.conf is ...
>exten => 7799,1,VoicemailMain2
>
>... and from zapata.conf ...
>callerid="TCC hcaar" <321-222-2553>
>mailbox=7731
>channel=19
>
>Any suggestions?
Actually, I've experienced that its not always -just- that local extension 
that you want to give this kind of access to, so I've written some AGI code 
that helps. Here is a snippet that gives you the general idea...

============// parse agi headers into array $agi["callerid"]
while ($env=read()) {
   errlog($env);
   $s = split(": ",$env);
   $agi[str_replace("agi_","",$s[0])] = trim($s[1]);
   if (($env == "") || ($env == "\n")) {
     break;
   }
}

// Main run
$clid = $agi["callerid"];
switch($clid) {
   // enter the mailbox number for each valid callerid
   // prepend 's' if you wish to trust the callerid and skip the
password check
   case "3001":  $parms = "s1"; break;
   case "06123456":    $parms = "s1"; break;
   default: $parms = "0"; break;
}
if($parms != "") $parms = " $parms";

echo "EXEC VoiceMailMain2$parms\n";
============
I find this approach more flexible. Hope this gets you somewhere.

Best regards,
Florian

OK, Here is a down and dirty which will work in limited situations (like
when there are not to many extensions to re-define - which is one of the
things I want to avoid)... The channel is the first parameter passed to

[globals]
Zap/5-=s6147
Zap/16=s6158

exten => 6199,1,GoToIf(${${CHANNEL:0:6}}?6199|2:6199|4)
exten => 6199,2,VoicemailMain2(${${CHANNEL:0:6}})
exten => 6199,3,Hangup
exten => 6199,4,VoicemailMain2
exten => 6199,5,Hangup

John





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