[asterisk-users] Voicemail Press '0'

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Douglas Garstang wrote:
>> -----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.

In Asterisk you are NEVER supposed to be able to access a different 
context without an explicit Goto, include =>.  There are a few 
applications that let you access another context, but you must still 
specify it somewhere.