[Asterisk-Users] How do I retrieve voice mail in Asterisk

[Wiley Siler]

If you are using something like AAH then it is defined in the GUI and is
most likely *98 like the previous.

If you are hand coding these then you will need something like this in
your extensions.conf included in the context you want to have access to
VM.

[voicemail-secure]
;----------------------------------------------
; VOICEMAIL ENTRY INTO SYSTEM
;----------------------------------------------
exten => 8,1,Answer
exten => 8,2,Wait(1)
exten => 8,3,VoicemailMain(${CALLERIDNUM}) 
exten => 8,4,Hangup 

[voicemail-insecure]
exten => 81,1,VoicemailMain() 
exten => 81,2,Hangup 

Note, I have created two extensions here.  Dialing 8 starts the VM app
and passes it our caller ID.  In doing so, it bypasses the prompt that
asks for the extension number and goes straight to the prompt that asks
for password.  A nice touch for contexts that include the local phones.
Your SIP phone knows who it is so the caller should not need to manually
enter an extension if the phone can do it for them simple by calling the
correct extension when they press the Voicemail button on the phone (or
at least my phones have it).

In the second extension, I have removed the callerID.  In the example
this allows me to point users form a less secure context (outside for
instance) to the VM system without passing CallerID (extension
essentually).  That way they get prompted for extensiona and password
not just password.

You can and should change the extension definition to something else
since 8 is much more useful as a 'dial out' prefix for example.

Hope that helps.  Good luck and remember the Wiki is your friend.

W



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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of JD Austin
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How do I retrieve voice mail in Asterisk

Depends on your dial plan.
for me it's *98 then enter mail box number then password.

JD

Chuck Bunn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I guess I am dense or something but I cannot figure out how to 
> retrieve voicemail using a SIP SJPhone or and Analog phone with 
> Astyerisk. I googled (voicemail +retreive :lists.digium.com) and did 
> not get much. Everything works. I can ring each extension and if it 
> doesn't answer it goes to voice mail, but I can't figure out how to 
> retrieve it.
>
> Thanks
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