[Asterisk-Users] VoicemailMain can't read from phone keyboard!

[Russ Beaupre, P.E.]

Steven Wang wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I try to set up voicemails for extension. When VoicemailMain gets called, it
> prompts for mailbox and password. It seems not able to read from the phone.
> So the authentication always fails.
> 
> I desparately need help to understand what is wrong. Here is a part of my
> extensions.conf:
> exten => _8500, 1, Wait(2)
> exten => _8500, 2, VoicemailMain(${CALLERIDNUM})
> exten => _8500, 3, Hangup
> 
You don't mention the type of phone you're using, but on our setup with 
SIP phones, we add a sipdtmfmode(inband) to what you have above.  You 
might try fiddling with that.

-russ