[Asterisk-Users] External access to voicemail

[William Suffill]

in the context of the incoming DID assuming their Caller ID is equal to
the mailbox for their voicemail aka DID #

exten * => 1,VoicemailMain(${CALLERIDNUM})

You might want to improve this though like so:
Add all assigned DIDs to an Asterisk DB
On * check if callerid is a valid did u assigned
if yes then VoicemailMain(${CALLERIDNUM})
else VoicemailMain()

This would cause them just get get a password prompt for their VM
if they call from a caller id matching the mailbox and press *
If the callerid doesn't match then call Voicemailmain without an arg
then they will get a prompt for the voicemail exten then password so
they can enter their did manually before the password prompt.
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:41, Steven Kokinos wrote:
> in my setup i have several users with DID lines coming in from various
> sip/iax providers. within our old phone system, a user could call
> their own DID line, then hit the * key when they hear their voicemail
> greeting and be prompted for their password. 
>  
> is there any way this could be replicated within asterisk? i'm having
> trouble figuring it out since it steps through things sequentially,
> whereas i want to scan for input during the playback. 
>  
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> regards,
>  
> -steve