[asterisk-users] asterisk login to voicemail

[vip killa]

can you explain how this can be done simpler?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Satish Patel <satish_lx at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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>
>> 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 <http://www.keshercommunications.com/> | Hosted
>> PBX <http://www.keshercommunications.com/hostedpbx.html>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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