[Asterisk-Users] call screening

[Antony Stone]

On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:13, hadi wrote:

> Yes
> U can do it with asterisk and by dialing *98 on your Ip Phone you can
> listen to your message

No, that's voicemail.  ie: The caller leaves a message and hangs up, then you 
retreive the message later.

The OP wanted to be able to hear the incoming call as it happens, and then 
decide whether or not to pick up the phone and talk to the caller (much like 
you can do with many answering machines).

Antony.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Shoval Tomer
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 1:40 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] call screening
>
> Hi all.
>
> Is there a way to use asterisk for call screening?
>
> Meaning, a call comes in, asterisk answers with voicemail after I don't
> pickup, and the voicemail prompt + the caller's message a played via the
> sound card on asterisk. If I wan't to pick up, I do so by picking up the
> phone and dialing something.
> Is it doable?

-- 
I own three Windows books, published by O'Reilly.   They are "Windows 
Annoyances", "Office 97 Annoyances" and "Windows 98 Annoyances".   That 
pretty much sums it up for me.

                                                     Please reply to the list;
                                                           please don't CC me.