[asterisk-users] How to check my voice mail from outside landline?

[Greg Woods]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:06 -0400, Noah Miller wrote:
>  I don't know what your primary
> incoming line does, but if it goes to a queue or a message, you could
> also have a special DTMF key to break out and go to VoicemailMain or
> whatever. 

That's what I did and it works fine since asterisk allows you to jump
contexts:

[incoming]

exten => s,1,Answer()
exten => s,2,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=1)
exten => s,3,Background(greeting)
exten => s,n,WaitExten(10)
exten => s,n,Goto(3)
...
exten => 8,1,Goto(internal,500)

Then I can press 8 during the initial menu to jump to internal extension
500, which is how I check voice mail from within the house:

[internal]
...
exten => 500,1,VoicemailMain()

Works great.

--Greg