[Asterisk-Users] pressing a key to get out of voicemail?

[Paul Fielding]

Go figure.  I guess I need to use 'show applications' more.  I searched all 
over for docos on the Voicemail app and it was under my nose the whole 
time... :)  Guess I'm on my learning curve.  thanks a bunch...

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Wieling" <eric at fnords.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] pressing a key to get out of voicemail?


> Paul Fielding wrote:
>>
>>
>> I've currently got Asterisk configured to take incoming calls and send 
>> them directly to my voicemail.  I'd prefer to keep this approach rather 
>> than sending people to a menu first.
>>
>>  What I want to be able to do is have voicemail come up, but if someone 
>> presses a key, such as 9 or 8 or perhaps a combo 98 or such, have it 
>> break out of voicemail and let me authenticate a password, and upon 
>> succeeding let me back into a dialplan so I can dial extensions or 
>> another outside line.
>
> This is from "show application voicemail"
>
> If the caller presses '0' (zero) during the prompt, the call jumps to
> extension 'o' in the current context.
> If the caller presses '*' during the prompt, the call jumps to
> extension 'a' in the current context.
>
> Of course if you press # it will exit out of voicemail to.  Voicemail will 
> even TELL you to press # after leacing a message.  Once voicemail exits, 
> of course the dialplan will continue at the next priority.
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