[asterisk-users] 2 Problems with 1.6.2

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 17 July 2009 13:26:20 Ira wrote:
> At 07:53 PM 7/16/2009, you wrote:
> > > I've been using 1.6.2 for a few weeks and I've managed to get almost
> > > everything working perfectly.
> > >
> > > I can't get the MWI indicators on my Aastra phones to work properly,
> > > the did in all the versions of 1.2 I used up to the most recent one,
> > > but now they work correctly right after the phone is re-started and
> > > rarely thereafter. it's as if something changed in the way the MWI is
> > > handled and I can't figure out what the difference is or what I've done
> > > wrong.
> >
> >It would probably be best for you to read UPGRADE-1.4.txt,
> > UPGRADE-1.6.txt, and UPGRADE.txt, as the issue with MWI is explained in
> > there and what you can do to "fix" it.  The second file contains the
> > explanation, although you would be well advised to read all three.
>
> So, I read for the third time or so as asked and all I can see is
> that talks about MWI is I should add something to scan the VM folders
> if I'm messing with Voicemail outside the normal settings. I'm not,
> but I added it anyway just to see if it would help. It didn't. I've
> searched voip-info for MWI information, but either I'm just really
> being stupid or something changed. In 1.2 just adding the line
> "mailbox=102,104" was all it took to make it work on the Aastra
> 480i-CTs we use. I really tried to figure this out without asking
> here, but it's been 2 weeks and I'm still failing.

Sorry, that's the most frequent problem that people have with MWI in 1.6, so
it was worth mentioning.  I would suggest that you file a bug report on
https://issues.asterisk.org.  It would be helpful if you would include SIP
debug output for both a machine that is working, as well as a machine that is
not working.

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