[Asterisk-Users] Accept DTMF during voicemail play?

[Mark Spencer]

Why not just make "*" while entering voicemail get you into a the
voicemail main application or some such?

Mark

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, denon wrote:

> hmm .. not sure .. I presume you're doing a Dial with the ringing tones? Or
> are you doing a ring?  I suppose the tacky alternative would be a wav file
> of ringing sounds, background'd. :)
>
> I guess other options would be a short delay or such somewhere, where you
> could hit an extension .. I'm not sure if either the ring app or Dial has
> any way to wait for digits .. or if putting a WaitForDigits ahead of it
> would work..
>
>
> 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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