[Asterisk-Dev] Re: adding SIPFROMUSER and SIPFROMDOMAIN variables / pbx_builtin_getvar_helper problem

[Olle E. Johansson]

Günther Starnberger wrote:
> Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Why not set the caller id or use the existing fromuser= and
>>fromdomain= settings?
> 
> 
> With the callerid I can only set the name but not the URI. When a SIP
> Client displays the full 'From' field it still displays "Some Name
> <asterisk at some-ip>".
> 
> We can't use 'fromuser' and 'fromdomain' either as we can only set them
> on a per peer basis. All our users are registered on OpenSER instead of
> Asterisk - so this won't work. While it would be trivial to modify
> Asterisk to use fromuser and fromdomain for our own users there is still
> the case that a user from another provider calls one of our users (who
> obviously can't be set as a peer beforehand).
> 
Thanks for the feedback. As stated before, we developers need feedback
to confront with reality :-)

I haven't seen this problem when running with SER, but I'll look into it
at some point.

/O