[asterisk-users] Voicemail Press '0'

[Joshua Colp]

Douglas Garstang wrote:
> Crikey. I can't get this to work!
> 
> Allegedly, you can press 0 while in the voicemail greeting and be dropped to the 'o' extension. For some reason, I can't get it to work. The 'docs' aren't clear about what context the o extension should be in. The voip wiki says
> 
> "the context for the voicemail box that we're looking for in the dialplan for the jump to the 'a' or 'o' extention"
> 
> Whatever that means...
> 
> My dialplan has:
> 
> [foo]
> exten => 556,1,Answer
> exten => 556,n,Voicemail(3254101 at default)
> 
> [default]
> exten => o,n,Playback(tt-monkeys)
> 	
> My voicemail.conf has:
> 
> [general]
> operator=yes
> 
> [default]
> 3254101 => 1234,Foo
> 
> When I press '0' nothing happens. Nothing is displayed on the console to indicate any attempt to dial 'o'.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> 
> 
You'll want the 'o' extension to be in the same context where voicemail 
is called from. Try that and see if it works.

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Joshua Colp
Software Developer
Digium, Inc.