[asterisk-users] Asterisk Voicemail

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <47014A21.5020300 at horanappraisals.com>,
Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC <mojo at horanappraisals.com> wrote:
> Do you mean, when people call VoiceMailMain to _check_ their messages 
> they need to be cut off after five minutes?  For this, I'd put an 
> absolute timeout before the call to VoiceMailMain. 
> 
> I'm using asterisk 1.4, and the following syntax works for me:
> 
> ; Set absolute timeout to five minutes (300 seconds)
> exten => 777,1,Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=300)
> exten => 777,2,VoiceMailMain

It would also be nice to the user if you define the T extension to
play an announcment to the user ("you have reached your time limit")
before hanging up, so they don't just think the system broke.

Cheers
Tony
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