[Asterisk-Users] Answer()

[Robert Jackson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessandro Gatti [mailto:alex at 4gatti.com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 12:52 PM
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Answer()
> 
> It may be a fine semantics, but I wanted to understand the 
> real function
> (need) of Answer(). 
> 
> All my scripts macros and extensions in extensions.conf work 
> fine without it.
> 
> What side effects can occur if I do not use it?
> 
Answer() is pretty important for use with anything that tries 
to read DTMF or anything else from the channel.  In those 
scenarios it is quite likely that you will not get any error, 
but simply won't receive the data.  This is a huge problem for 
any sort of IVR(auto-attendant;astcc;AGI;etc...).  You may not 
need it in all situations, but you definitely will want to 
answer any calls that don't simply ring another channel just 
to be on the safe side.

Just my take on this issue,

Robert Jackson