[asterisk-users] VoiceMail Access

[Steve Kennedy]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:10:23PM -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote:

> Mike Hammett wrote:
> >I was looking at the ILECs’ web sites to determine how their users 
> >access voicemail.
> >What method should I use for my users checking their voicemail?  Can 
> >Asterisk voicemail be made to accept hitting * during the greeting to 
> >enter the voicemail system?  If they call their own number, how do I get 
> >Asterisk to recognize that and take them to the voicemail system?
> A common approach is to use the caller id in combination with some digit 
> sequence.  For my systems, I've just used 555 as the VM extension.
> exten=>555,1,VoicemailMain(${CALLERID(num)})
> For access to the VM from outside the system, I've used an AGI script to 
> query a database to validate the user.

It's also quite easy to set-up if you call your own extension number
from your extension it goes into voicemail for you extension.

You can have another number as above to access voicemail from another
extension.

Steve

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