[Asterisk-Users] Nortel Meridian Opt 81C and PRI

[Greg Camp]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Rodgers [mailto:Anthony_Rodgers at dnv.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:17 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Nortel Meridian Opt 81C and PRI
> 
> 
> On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Greg Camp wrote:
> 
> > Now, our latest two issues:
> >
> > 1) When a user on the Nortel makes a call to a user on * a 10-digit
> > callerid value shows up on the SIP phone instead of the users
> > extension.
> > Has anyone encountered this and found a work-around?  It's been
> > suggested that we use a QSIG interface instead of 5ESS emulation, but
> > did not purchased the Nortel QSIG option so it is unavailable.
> 
> We implemented a macro that stripped the leading 6 digits from the
> numbers, like this:
> 
> ; If it looks like one of ours, only show the last 4 digits
> exten => s,40,GotoIf($["${CALLERIDNUM:0:8}" = "60498131"]?50:)
> exten => s,50,SetCallerID,"${CALLERIDNAME} <${CALLERIDNUM:-4}>"

I thought about that, but all of our extensions display the same caller id value.  Unfortunately the above won't work in our case.

> 
> >
> > 2) We would like to use Comedian Mail for company wide voicemail.  I
> > can
> > setup user extensions easily enough.  I have also setup two 4-digit
> > extensions; one for picking up voicemail and one for leaving voicemail
> > for an arbitrary user.  The second ext is used primarily by the
> > receptionist (coming from the Nortel PBX) to redirect callers to users
> > voicemails.  The issue I'm having is that if you don't pass an
> > extension
> > to the Voicemail() function * will prompt you one time.  If you key the
> > ext incorrectly the system hangs up on you.  Is there a way to prompt
> > the caller for the extension to leave a message for, accept the ext,
> > check the database, and give the caller another chance if the ext is
> > invalid?
> 
> AFAIK, Voicemail() will jump to n+101 if the requested mailbox doesn't
> exist - you can use that to return to the prompt asking for the mailbox
> number.

Doh!  I completely forgot about jumping to n+101.  I have the system playing back "invalid extension" and it works like I'd hoped it would.

Thanks!
Greg