[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail() problems - Long pause after incoming message recording ended.

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:38, asterisk-users at sensecompute.com wrote:
> I'm having the following problem:
> 
> I call into my Asterisk box (RedHat Linux 9.0, 1 Digium X100P card) 
> to access voicemail. After dialing the appropriate extension I get 
> voicemail, am presented with the user's unavailable message, and can 
> leave a message normally.
> 
> The problem comes when I press "#" to end the recording, at which 
> point I am told "Your message has been saved." Then there is a long 
> lag of about 20 seconds of silence, during which Asterisk does not 
> respond to DTMF at all, before I am finally dropped back into the 
> priority list for the extension, which in this case is a simple 
> "Goodbye" <hangup.>
> 
> Any idea why this long lag after message-recording termination is 
> happening? I'd like Asterisk to hang up immediately after the 
> incoming caller terminates their VM recording.

Check your mail settings, also whether your DNS is working fast. This is
all probably due to the time to get the vm out the app and into the
mail.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>