[asterisk-users] Voicemail issues

[Dovid B]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Walker" <jason at jasonsolves.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 8:14 PM
Subject: [asterisk-users] Voicemail issues


>I put my voicemail groups into different contexts so that I can use Dial by 
>name and escape.
> I had set ext 500 as
> exten => 500,1,VoiceMailMain(${CALLERID(number)}@default|s)
> but now that the contexts are different. this does not work
>
> #1 how do I have everyone use an ext to get the voicemail regardless of 
> context.
> #2 can I get the mail buttons to work on my polycom 501s and swissphones
> #3 where do I put the "i" ext to allow the caller to go from the voicemail 
> back to a ext in the dialplan
>
> Thanks
> Jason

Jason if you have diffrent users in diffrent context's then you will have to 
make a diffrent extension for the diffrent contexts that the voicemails are 
in. (unless there is a variable that will tell you the context of the phone 
connected to asterisk).