[asterisk-users] asterisk login to voicemail

[Satish Patel]

Why are you using agi for this ? They are inbuild features of asterisk.

Or may be I am missing something

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On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:26 AM, vip killa <vipkilla at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, thanks, that worked...
> in case anyone is interested this is what i did....
>
> [voicemail]
> exten => a,1,VoiceMailMain(${MAILBOXID}@${MAILBOXCONTEXT},p)
>
> in AGI...
>
> $AGI->set_variable("MAILBOXID", $options);
> $AGI->set_variable("MAILBOXCONTEXT","4");
> $AGI->set_context("voicemail");
> $AGI->exec("VoiceMail", $options);
>
> now the question is how to I get the VoiceMailMain to not ask for  
> "Mailbox" and already know which mailbox and just prompt for  
> "Password"
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dan Journo <dan at keshercommunications.com 
> > wrote:
> > Unfortunately, that solution will not work for me... The user must  
> be able to hit * during the greeting of any voicemail and be  
> prompted for the "Password" to that particular mailbox.... looks  
> like i got a lot of programming to do to create a work around for  
> this... thanks for your help...
>
> Forgive me if i'm wrong, but you guys seem to be over complicating  
> things.
>
> Taken from: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+VoiceMail
>
> during the prompt if the caller presses:
>  '*' - the call jumps to extension 'a' in the current voicemail  
> context.
>     Example:
>     Exten => a, 1, VoicemailMain(@default)
>     Exten => a, 2, Hangup
>
> When using the star '*' it's important to note that the context you  
> placed the application voicemail in is irrelevant, it's the context  
> for the voicemail box that we're looking for in the dialplan for the  
> jump to the 'a' extension.
>
>
> So this is what i do...
>
> Before passing the call to the voicemail app, i set $ 
> {MAILBOXCONTEXT} to the correct context, and i set ${MAILBOXID} to  
> the mailbox name.
>
> Then, in extensions.conf, I added this:-
>
> [voicemail]
> exten => a,1,Playback(astcc-please-enter-your)
> exten => a,n,VoicemailMain(${MAILBOXID}@${MAILBOXCONTEXT})
>
> When the user presses *, they are passed to the 'a' extension above  
> and into VoicemailMain.
>
> I'm sure you can turn this into AGI easily enough if needed.
>
>
>
> Dan Journo
>
> Kesher Communications (UK)
>
> Business Phone Systems | Hosted PBX
>
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