[asterisk-users] Transfer caller direct to voicemail

[Drew Gibson]

Hi,

Our operator frequently gets requests to transfer a call directly to 
voicemail in order for the caller to leave a message without disturbing 
the callee. Basicly, I'm looking for a blindxfer to vm.

My first thought was to prepend a digit (eg 7) to the extension but this 
does not fit well with our dialplan.

According to an article on voip-info.org Asterisk at Home appears to 
implement this as #*XXX. I assume they are using an application map in 
features.conf but I cannot see a way to pass the required extension to 
the VoiceMail() application.

Can this be done in features.conf?

regards,

Drew

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Drew Gibson

Systems Administrator
OANDA Corporation
416-593-6767 x322
www.oanda.com