[Asterisk-Users] Accept DTMF during voicemail play?

[denon]

hmm .. not sure .. I presume you're doing a Dial with the ringing tones? Or 
are you doing a ring?  I suppose the tacky alternative would be a wav file 
of ringing sounds, background'd. :)

I guess other options would be a short delay or such somewhere, where you 
could hit an extension .. I'm not sure if either the ring app or Dial has 
any way to wait for digits .. or if putting a WaitForDigits ahead of it 
would work..


At 02:30 PM 2/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>denon wrote:> I'm not quite sure I follow you, but if I do, all you need 
>to do is add
>>an extension in that context for VoiceMailMain.  Like so:
>>exten => 100,1,VoicemailMain
>>Then when you dial 100 from anywhere, you get the prompts .. or you can 
>>pass your mailbox to it as an argument, and only need to enter your password.
>
>I didn't express myself clearly, I'm afraid.  Here are more words, but 
>they are more precise:
>
>Current config is that when a call comes in to one of my asterisk lines, I 
>have asterisk immediately answer, and then begin to ring a phone.  If it 
>doesn't pick up in 15 seconds, then the extension jumps to voicemail.
>
>All well and good, but: (crux of matter right here)
>
>If it's ME coming in, and not some arbitrary caller, I want to check my 
>voicemail.  But I cannot interrupt the ringing tones that I hear while 
>asterisk is dialing my phone (in order to get to voicemail) and once the 
>rings time out, now I'm in VOICEMAIL "LEAVE" functionality, and it does 
>not seem possible to interrupt the outgoing message in order to jar it 
>into knowing, "It's me; dammit: let me RETRIEVE my voicemail instead of 
>leaving a dang message."
>
>I think what I want is going to involve sensitizing asterisk to tones 
>during the outbound message, but I don't know where such a thing would be 
>enabled.
>
>I hope this is clearer.
>
>Thanks.
>
>B.
>
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