[Asterisk-Users] PrivacyManager Broken?

[John Novack]

Jeremy G. Gault wrote:

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>Hi all,
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>I am running into some problems here with PrivacyManager.  We used to use it without any issue, but now there seems to be several problems.
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>We are currently running Asterisk 1.2.4.
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>First, it seems that if the user does not press the pound (#) key after entering their number, PrivacyManager will fail.  I have the minlength set to 10, and entering 10 digits doesn't work.  Entering 11 digits doesn't either.  But entering 10 followed by the pound key will.
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>Second, once the user figures out how to operate PrivacyManager, there's another problem: My extension rings to a SIP extension (Polycom IP phone) and a Zap extension (we have a 4-port card with 4 different extensions on it -- one of which is my cordless phone.)
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>On the cordless phone (through the Zap channel) the caller ID shows
>"Privacy Manager" along with the user-specified number.  However, on the IP phone, it simply shows "unknown"
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>Is this just us, or is PrivacyManager not working correctly anymore?
>Any help would be appreciated.
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>		Jeremy
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Has it EVER worked correctly?
 From the Wiki and my experience with 1.2b1, if the callerid number 
isn't a number, but a word ( such as asterisk ) it doesn't even come 
into play, acting as if there were a valid phone number.  The Wiki had a 
"fix" that again according to the Wiki, fixes that problem but breaks 
the callerid name
IMO, Privacy manager should come into play if the callerid number field 
doesn't contain a string of digits, or, even better, a string of digits 
of a length that can be specified, all without breaking the callerid 
name..Replacing any callerID name delivered with "privacymanager" seems 
unnecessary.


John Novack