[Asterisk-Users] Accept DTMF during voicemail play?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Sunday 23 February 2003 14:43, Brian Capouch wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:>
>
> > 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.
>
> That's exactly what I needed to do, thanks to you and
> denon at denon.cx.
>
> Before:
>
> exten => s,1,setmusiconhold,default
> exten => s,2,responsetimeout,15
> exten => s,3,Answer
> exten => s,4,Dial,Zap/2|15
> exten => s,5,Voicemail,u100
> exten => s,6,Hangup
>
>
> Now:
> exten => s,1,setmusiconhold,default
> exten => s,2,responsetimeout,15
> exten => s,3,Answer
> exten => s,4,Dial,Zap/2|15
> exten => s,5,Background,userunavail
> exten => s,6,Background,vm-intro
> exten => s,7,Voicemail,s100
>
>
> ***
>
> Note I had to move the voicemail "Unavailable" message into
> the system messages for this to work.  Don't know if there is
> a way of specifying the path to a specific voicemail outgoing
> message from the extensions file.
>
> Thanks to all who replied; I am a happy camper.

There sure is.  Note that there's a symlink from
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/vm to /var/spool/asterisk/vm just for
such a purpose:

exten => s,6,Background,vm/100/vm-intro

-Tilghman