[Asterisk-Users] Stopping Asterisk from forwarding calls?

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

A workaround (bvut slighty messy) would be to set up two lines on each
phone.
Standard calls (which can be forwarded) can go the first (main)
line/extension.
Group calls go to line 2.

PaulH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Lange" <john.lange at open-it.ca>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:18 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Stopping Asterisk from forwarding calls?


> The first time I asked this to the list I didn't do a great job of it so
> I'm posting again with more details.
>
> Problem: when ringing multiple extensions, if one user has their phone
> forwarded directly to voicemail, it stops the whole group from ringing
> because the voicemail picks up immediately.
>
> Also, after hours incoming calls are to ring all extensions so anyone
> can pickup. But if one person in the office has their phone forwarded
> the same problem occurs.
>
> What we need is for asterisk, when ringing multiple extensions, to
> completely ignore the forward requests and just ring the remaining
> phones.
>
> Reading the source code I see there are two parameters for channels,
> allowredir_in & allowredir_out. These offer me some hope that Asterisk
> has the ability but I couldn't figure out what these do or how to make
> use of them (I'm not a C programmer so maybe its just a red herring?).
>
> -- 
> John Lange
>
>
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