[asterisk-users] Voicemail Press '0'

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric "ManxPower" Wieling [mailto:eric at fnords.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:15 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Voicemail Press '0'
> 
> 
> 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'.
> > 
> 
> Put exten => o in the same context as Voicemail.  I don't know if you 
> can include => the context it is in or not.

Grrrr. It's a fussy bastard. I took what I finally got working in a simple test scenario and tried to apply that to production and it ain't working.

Doug.