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Yo, Inspired by the example in the tips & tricks-section of "http://www.junghanns.net/asterisk/", I built a more elaborate call divert-feature. This one validates if the extension a call-forward is to be set to is actually valid for the current context and additionally saves this context into the DB and always uses it to originate the divert from, as you can't expect the

I am configuring call forwarding in our * setup, but I am having trouble triggering the correct voicemail call. When I have an extension, e.g. 201, forwarded to another, e.g. 202, my macro will call: Dial(Local/${fwNum}@internal/n,30) and once into the internal context, the macro is called again but with MACRO_EXTEN set to 202 rather than 201. So the context flow of control will "do it's thing" against 202. What I want, though, is to return from that macro differently when the Dial() was calle...

I have looked on the wiki and in the archives for as much info as I can find about call forwarding. I have it working based on the sample from Tips&Tricks except for handling voice mail. When I detect a forwarded extension, I call Dial(Local/${fwNum}@internal/n,20) to dial the number as thought it were dialed directly from our extensions. If I have the extension forwarded to an internal line, the recursive Dial(Local...) will handle the busy/no answer rather than have the original Dial() return with priority set at n+101. I have tried thi...