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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 14:42 -0500, Fred Posner wrote:
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On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:37 PM, jonas kellens wrote:
> Does Asterisk know when it hits a voicemailbox ?
> When calling to a cell-phone or GSM, after some rings and no pickup you arrive at a voicemailbox.
> If Asterisk does not know it's a voicemailbox that has answered the call, the voicemailbox will contain 60minutes of 'silence'. This is very expensive 'silence'.
> How to avoid this ?
> Jonas
You can avoid this is several ways... one of the ways I like best is to dial with a macro that then requires the recipient to press 1 or some dtmf confirmation to accept the call. Very good at avoiding voicemail, cell phone service messages, etc.
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Have you a link to documentation on how to implement this ? I wonder what to do with, and how to connect the caller with the callee, until this callee presses '1'...<BR>
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Jonas.
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