asterisk users - Apr 2007 - How to check my voice mail from outside landline?

Hi Friends,

I installed and configured Asterisk. I am getting my voice mail to my email as
attachments. Well. We can check our voice mail by dialing *98. But, I want to
check my voice mails by dialing our DID number from a outside telephone.

How can I do this? Please help me.

Look forward to your response. Thank you.

Regards,
Chandra.
       
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Hi,

Crazy Boy wrote:
> But, I want to check my voice mails by dialing our DID number from a 
> outside telephone.
> 
there must be an easier way, but since i only have asterisk and a couple 
of ATAs (spa 3k), i've set one up to give a dial tone to the incoming 
caller on the FXO port.  This way, dialing a pstn number i get another 
dial tone to access internal extensions, such as voicemail.

best regards
adam

Hi Chandra -
> I installed and configured Asterisk. I am getting my voice mail to my email
> as attachments. Well. We can check our voice mail by dialing *98. But, I
> want to check my voice mails by dialing our DID number from a outside
> telephone.
>
> How can I do this? Please help me.
You'll need to configure your dialplan to do this.  What you are
asking is easy to do, but dialplan themselves can be very complex.  I
really suggest you read as much as possible in the asterisk section of
the VOIP WIKI:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk

You will also want to read the sample configuration file of extensions.conf

Now, to answer your question, you'll need to configure an extension.
One possible way to do this - in extensions.conf:

exten => XXXXXXXXXX,1,VoicemailMain()
   (where XXXXXXXXXX is your DID number)

- Noah

I installed the asterisk GUI, "Asterisk web manager", it loads fine,
but if
I go to the AGI section, I get a "permission denied"
Obviously apache cannot access the /etc/asterisk directory.
I added apache as group, but still the same problem.
Suggestion any one?