[Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail

[Jay Milk]

How about starting your macro with SetVar(DialedExten=${MACRO_EXTEN})
and then going into voicemail with VoiceMail(u${DialedExten})

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael George [mailto:george at auroravideosys.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:00 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail
> 
> 
> I am configuring call forwarding in our * setup, but I am having 
> trouble triggering the correct voicemail call.
> 
> When I have an extension, e.g. 201, forwarded to another, 
> e.g. 202, my 
> macro will call:
> Dial(Local/${fwNum}@internal/n,30)
> 
> and once into the internal context, the macro is called again 
> but with 
> MACRO_EXTEN set to 202 rather than 201.  So the context flow 
> of control 
> will "do it's thing" against 202.  What I want, though, is to return 
> from that macro differently when the Dial() was called against Local 
> rather than my internal extensions.  Then, have that Dial(Local/...) 
> return with the priority set to either n+1 or n+101 so that I can 
> handle the flow into VM based on that original extension.
> 
> I'm thinking that CHANNEL, MACRO-PRIORITY, and MACRO_OFFSET might be 
> helpful for a return from the subsequent call to the macro, 
> but I need 
> to get information passed back through the Dial(Local/...) 
> call so that 
> I can know what happened with the dial to the forward target.
> 
> I would be satisfied if I can get the return from 
> Dial(Local/...) even 
> if I cannot differentiate a busy vs. timeout condition.
> 
> Most of the forwarding examples I've found are missing parts of the 
> config file and/or do not seem to work quite right.
> 
> Thank you!
> -Michael
> 
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