asterisk users - Nov 2003 - Asterisk with External Voicemail

If anyone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it! 

I've got an Asterisk deployment where I'd like to use an existing
external
Octel voicemail system.  I've been trying to define an extension that if 
the call isn't answered in a few rings, to dial our external voicemail 
number.  That voicemail system works by seeing the CALLED number and 
routing the call to the user's answering message.  The problem is that 
Asterisk sends the CALLING digits on the outbound call and the CALLING 
party gets the "welcome to Octel" message instead of the user's
voicemail
box.

Is there any way to a variable like ${EXTEN} or ${RDNIS} to "replace"
the
caller ID information with the destination mail box number? 

Am I thinking through this the wrong way?

Thanks!

Chris Veazey
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On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:56, cveazey@blackhillsfiber.com
wrote:
> If anyone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it!  
> 
> I've got an Asterisk deployment where I'd like to use an existing
> external Octel voicemail system.  I've been trying to define an
> extension that if the call isn't answered in a few rings, to dial our
> external voicemail number.  That voicemail system works by seeing the
> CALLED number and routing the call to the user's answering message.
> The problem is that Asterisk sends the CALLING digits on the outbound
> call and the CALLING party gets the "welcome to Octel" message
instead
> of the user's voicemail box.
> 
> Is there any way to a variable like ${EXTEN} or ${RDNIS} to
"replace"
> the caller ID information with the destination mail box number?  
> 
> Am I thinking through this the wrong way?
-- show application SetCallerID  --

  -= Info about application 'SetCallerID' =- 

[Synopsis]:
  Set CallerID

[Description]:
  SetCallerID(clid[|a]): Set Caller*ID on a call to a new
value.  Sets ANI as well if a flag is used.  Always returns 0

-- show application SetCIDName  --

  -= Info about application 'SetCIDName' =- 

[Synopsis]:
  Set CallerID Name

[Description]:
  SetCIDName(cname[|a]): Set Caller*ID Name on a call to a new
value, while preserving the original Caller*ID number.  This is
useful for providing additional information to the called
party. Sets ANI as well if a flag is used.  Always returns 0

-- show application SetCIDNum  --

  -= Info about application 'SetCIDNum' =- 

[Synopsis]:
  Set CallerID Number

[Description]:
  SetCIDNum(cnum[|a]): Set Caller*ID Number on a call to a new
value, while preserving the original Caller*ID name.  This is
useful for providing additional information to the called
party. Sets ANI as well if a flag is used.  Always returns 0


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Steven Critchfield  <critch@basesys.com>