[Asterisk-Users] Auto connect to voicemail

[Don Pobanz]

On Monday, April 05, 2004 5:53 PM, Mark Hagler [SMTP:pbx at hagler.org] 
wrote:
> What do you do when $CALLERIDNUM of the caller isn't the 4-digit
> extension?
> I set all of my users Caller ID entries to their 10-digit phone # so
> that
> Caller ID appears correctly when I send their call out the PRI to the
> public
> network.    The side effect of this is breaking convenient access to
> voicemail using this method, and I haven't found a way to fix it yet.
>

I have not done it but there should be a way to remove the first 6 
digits and only send the last 4. Try something like

Exten => 8500,1,Voicemailmain(${CALLERIDNUM:6})

Don Pobanz