[Asterisk-Users] dialing # on a crisco (was: Divert to arbitrary number)

[Rich Adamson]

> > Is it possible to have a speed dial on a cisco 7960 which dials the voice
> > mail number and then dials the extention and password so a user can
> > just push a single button to get their voicemail?  This is a no brainer
> > on a regular analog phone where you can do something like 8500p100p1234
> > where p is a pause that most analog phones let you place in a speeddial,
> > but on a sip phone how is this done?
> 
> You do that on Asterisk in extensions.conf, not on the phone itself. 
> Either you simply do not set a pw in voicemail.conf, or you check the 
> caller ID of the phone and then decide if you allow or reject access to a 
> special extension that calls VoiceMailMain with the 's' option.

In the Cisco 7960 SIP<mac-addr>.cnf file, add a statement like:
 messages_uri: "1234"
and in your extensions.conf, add something like:
 exten => 1234,1,Wait,1     
 exten => 1234,2,VoicemailMain(s${CALLERIDNUM})

When you press the "messages" button on the front of the 7960, 
you'll go directly to voicemail bypassing the user input for the
password.