asterisk users - May 2004 - What's in ${EXTEN} ? Why does voicemail prompt for an extension?

Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
password?
 
[voice-mail]
exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
exten => 99,2,Hangup


Paul Mahler 
pmahler@signate.com <mailto:pmahler@signate.com>
<http://www.signate.com/> 
Signate, LLC
PO Box 60430
Palo Alto, CA
 94306

 VoIP Systems, Training & Consulting

Here is how mine is:

exten => *55,1,Voicemailmain(${CALLERIDNUM})

Mine works.

Kyle


Paul Mahler wrote:
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>Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
>password?
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>[voice-mail]
>exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
>exten => 99,2,Hangup
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>Signate, LLC
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Wrong voicemail context???

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] What's in ${EXTEN} ? Why does voicemail prompt for
an extension?

 
Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
password?
 
[voice-mail]
exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
exten => 99,2,Hangup


Paul Mahler 
pmahler@signate.com <mailto:pmahler@signate.com>
<http://www.signate.com/> 
Signate, LLC
PO Box 60430
Palo Alto, CA
 94306

 VoIP Systems, Training & Consulting

	

 

 

 


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Hi,

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 15:47, Paul Mahler wrote:
>  Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
> password?
>  
> [voice-mail]
> exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
> exten => 99,2,Hangup
<super snip>
> exten => 98,1,SayDigits(${EXTEN})
You might want to try with ${CALLERIDNUM} instead of ${EXTEN}

-- 
Nicolas Gudino <nicolas@house.com.ar>
House Internet S.R.L.

Using the EXTEN variable will give you the extension that was dialed.  Try using
CALLERIDNUM (for this problem and your other post).
 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+variables

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To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] What's in ${EXTEN} ? Why does voicemail prompt for
an extension?




Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
password?

[voice-mail]
exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
exten => 99,2,Hangup


Paul Mahler
pmahler@signate.com <mailto:pmahler@signate.com>
<http://www.signate.com/>
Signate, LLC
PO Box 60430
Palo Alto, CA
 94306

 VoIP Systems, Training & Consulting

       








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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:47, Paul Mahler wrote:
>  Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
> password?
>  
> [voice-mail]
> exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
> exten => 99,2,Hangup
The ${EXTEN} variable is the extension number, which in this case will
always be 99. You will want to use ${CALLERIDNUM} here (or some variant
thereof.)

-- 
Joshua M. Thompson <funaho@jurai.org>

On 14/05/2004 at 11:47 Paul Mahler wrote:
>Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
>password?
> 
>[voice-mail]
>exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
>exten => 99,2,Hangup
>
>
${EXTEN} in your example contains 99 ... you want to use ${CALLERIDNUM}

Andy

> Why does voicemail prompt me for an extension instead of just asking my
> password?
Because there is no Voicemailbox "99" in that context in
your configuration. 

> [voice-mail]
> exten => 99,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}@inside)
> exten => 99,2,Hangup
In your example, $EXTEN will always be 99, because that
is the extension.

If you would like to have the "99" as a prefix for the
following voicemailbox number you could do something like:

exten => _99.,1,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN:2}@inside)
exten => _99.,2,Hangup

And then "99123" would go directly to Mailbox "123" (if it
exists).

regards
Andreas