[Asterisk-Dev] [patch] Function to check passcode againstvmpasscode

[Alexander Lopez]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Gil Kloepfer
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:24 PM
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] [patch] Function to check 
> passcode againstvmpasscode
> 
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:18:51PM -0500, Alexander Lopez wrote:
> >  app_Authenticate supports 'j'umping. The documentation for 
> > VMAuthenticate does not state this, But it would be better and 
> > probably easier for you to have VMAuthenticate support 
> jumping or have 
> > it define a variable so that you can continue iin your dialplan.
> 
> This doesn't solve the problem where I have the password in a 
> variable already, but want to check it against the password 
> in the voicemail.conf file.
> 
> It seems that the only feedback I'm getting is that people 
> don't want a separate function to do this, so I'll go back 
> and change VMAuthenticate to do the same thing.  It just 
> seemed to me that doing too many operations within the same 
> app would make things confusing (both in the source and 
> within the dialplan).
> 
> Does anyone else see the need to support the 'j' option in 
> VMAuthenticate?  If so, I'll go ahead and add that too.  I 
> just thought that we were moving away from jumping around 
> because of the labelled priorities.
> 
> -- Gil.
> _______________________________________________

I vote no for the 'j'umping. However I think we need to add labelled
priorities to Authenticate.