[Asterisk-Users] External access to voicemail

[John Todd]

At 2:41 PM -0400 on 4/8/04, 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

Hint #1) Don't send HTML email

Hints #2-4) Look at the "Background" utility, then look at where the 
"busy" and "unavailable" messages are stored for each user, and then 
look at the Voicemail2 options that go right to the mailbox without 
playing the introductory message(s).  You should be able to piece 
something together with those clues.

JT