[Asterisk-Users] caller id NUMBER in addition to or in place of NAME

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:12:22PM -0500, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> 
>>I'd like to get VM_CALLERID to include number in addition to name
>>since often when calls come from cell lines or various other,
>>the name is just a city, state and the number would be more
>>usefull.  Is there a way to get the number in the VM_CALLERID
>>string, or is there a second variable I can use in formatting
>>email vmail notifications to get the number?
> 
> 
> Maybe I could ask this more clearly.  Is there any way to get
> the callers NUMBER in addition to or in place of NAME in the
> voicemail notification emails?

I seem to recall a bug regarding this.  Are you using 1.0.3, 1.0.x CVS 
STABLE, or CVS-HEAD.  The problem is that what was listed in the 
voicemail.conf.sample as the default e-mail message was, in fact, not 
the default e-mail message.  Uncommenting out the example message fixed 
the problem.

--Eric