[Asterisk-Dev] Voicemail problems and fix request

[James Sizemore]

I noticed this too, <Smile.>  Should be easy to fix.

asterisk at billheckel.com wrote:

> ANother annoyance I was reminded of today.
>
> If the users have an existing unavailable or busy message and record 
> another shorter message the
> voicemail system retains the portion of the longer message that comes 
> after the short message ( like
> a tape recorder ).
>
> Bill
>
> asterisk at billheckel.com wrote:
>
>> I have been noticing a number of problems / misfeatures in Voicemail 
>> on *.  None of them are major, just annoying to the users.
>>
>> 1.  If you are checking your voicemail and another call comes into 
>> voicemail it creates an 'orphan' message.  This message will have a 
>> number other than 0 and can't be retrieved but triggers the voicemail 
>> waiting light.  Either allow the voicemail checker to read messages 
>> starting at other than 0000 or push the new message down after it's 
>> written. ( or something else creative )
>>
>> 2.  In order to get windows compatible soundfiles email to users you 
>> need to record in wav and WAV formats or it can't email the correct 
>> one to you.  It would be nice to be able to select the writing 
>> formats and emailing formats separately.
>>
>> 3.  ADSI scripts cause problems with voicemail.  If the users press 
>> any soft keys the phone stops sending DTMF tones ( it also ignores 
>> the soft keys after that ).  I have had to disable the script loading 
>> portion of adsi_load_vmail to retain the display functions without 
>> softkeys.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill Heckel
>> sender of thinkgeek goodies
>>
>>
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