asterisk users - Dec 2006 - Dial own extension to get to voicemail.

I've gotten this Polycom 501 pretty much licked, but I need to know if
there's a way in a dialplan to say if someone dials their own extension
it goes straight to voicemail and asks them for their password.  I
thought I saw an example of this on the web but I can't seem to find it.
Any advice appreciated!

 

Phil 

 

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What about comparing the caller id to the dialled number, and if they match,
then call Voicemail() ....?

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From: Phil Finkler [mailto:PhilF@iqconsultinginc.com]
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Subject: [asterisk-users] Dial own extension to get to voicemail.



I've gotten this Polycom 501 pretty much licked, but I need to know if
there's a way in a dialplan to say if someone dials their own extension it
goes straight to voicemail and asks them for their password.  I thought I saw an
example of this on the web but I can't seem to find it.  Any advice
appreciated!

 

Phil 

 

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On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:34:36PM -0500, Phil Finkler
wrote:
> I've gotten this Polycom 501 pretty much licked, but I need to know if
> there's a way in a dialplan to say if someone dials their own extension
> it goes straight to voicemail and asks them for their password.  I
> thought I saw an example of this on the web but I can't seem to find
it.
> Any advice appreciated!
> 
You can do it, but it's more work than having an extension (the standard one
seems to be 86 now) that goes to:
        VoicemailMain(s${CALLERID(num)}@default);

(But only in a context where the callerid can be trusted.)

To do what you want, you would need to have your extension processing
macro test if CALLERID(num) = ${EXTEN}, and then invoke the above
expression instead of dialing the extension.