[Asterisk-Users] Accept DTMF during voicemail play?

[denon]

Hit send too fast .. I suppose the obvious would be to use a Background to 
play your "Please leave a message after the tone.. " and you could 
interrupt that before the beep ..all of which I'm sure you've thought of.


At 02:30 PM 2/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>denon wrote:> I'm not quite sure I follow you, but if I do, all you need 
>to do is add
>>an extension in that context for VoiceMailMain.  Like so:
>>exten => 100,1,VoicemailMain
>>Then when you dial 100 from anywhere, you get the prompts .. or you can 
>>pass your mailbox to it as an argument, and only need to enter your password.
>
>I didn't express myself clearly, I'm afraid.  Here are more words, but 
>they are more precise:
>
>Current config is that when a call comes in to one of my asterisk lines, I 
>have asterisk immediately answer, and then begin to ring a phone.  If it 
>doesn't pick up in 15 seconds, then the extension jumps to voicemail.
>
>All well and good, but: (crux of matter right here)
>
>If it's ME coming in, and not some arbitrary caller, I want to check my 
>voicemail.  But I cannot interrupt the ringing tones that I hear while 
>asterisk is dialing my phone (in order to get to voicemail) and once the 
>rings time out, now I'm in VOICEMAIL "LEAVE" functionality, and it does 
>not seem possible to interrupt the outgoing message in order to jar it 
>into knowing, "It's me; dammit: let me RETRIEVE my voicemail instead of 
>leaving a dang message."
>
>I think what I want is going to involve sensitizing asterisk to tones 
>during the outbound message, but I don't know where such a thing would be 
>enabled.
>
>I hope this is clearer.
>
>Thanks.
>
>B.
>
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