[Asterisk-Users] Accept DTMF during voicemail play?

[denon]

At 02:16 PM 2/23/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sunday 23 February 2003 13:30, Brian Capouch 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.
>
>Instead of jumping directly to the VoiceMail application, why
>not run the Background application with your voice mail greeting,
>then use just a short bit of silence for the actual greeting?
>You could then interrupt the Background application with a new
>extension (sending you to VoiceMailMain), without having to
>modify the VoiceMail application at all.

hehe .. pretty much exactly what I just told him, he took the thread to 
private email ..



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