[Asterisk-Users] Multiple Servers and One Central Voicemail

[Anton Krall]

Wow! Another Anton :)

I was thinking something or the sort but you explained it nicely! Thank God
for asterisk and macros!

Thank you for the tips Anton. We Anton's rock :)

Thx man! 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Anton
Jackson-Smith
Sent: Sábado, 09 de Abril de 2005 11:27 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple Servers and One Central Voicemail

Anton Krall wrote:

>Guys.
>
>I know how to make 2 asterisk servers dial each other via IAX and such 
>but I was wondering if there is a way to only have 1 centrl voicemail 
>and not have each asterisk have its own voicemails.
>
>Is this possible?
>  
>
Hi Anton,
I'm fairly sure this is possible - I've been looking into setting up
something similar myself.
 From memory, you need to configure one server to dial a specific extension
on the other via IAX which connects to voicemail.
For example:

Voicemail server:
    [inbound-iax]
    exten => _999XXXX,1,Voicemail(u${EXTEN:3})

Other server:
    [macro-remoteVM] ; Macro to connect to voicemail on remote system
    exten => s,1,Dial(IAX2/user:pass at vmserver.example.com/999${ARG1},20)
    exten => s,2,Playback(invalid)
    exten => s,3,Hangup

    [default]
    exten => 1234,1,Dial(SIP/user)
    exten => 1234,2,Macro(remoteVM, ${EXTEN})
    exten => 1234,3,Hangup

Basically, if you dial extension 1234 on the other server and noone answers,
the remoteVM macro dials 999+the extension on the voicemail server.
The wildcard on the voicemail server recognises that you want to forward to
voicemail (from the 999 prefix) and calls voicemail on the original
extension (${EXTEN:3} removes the 999 from the front.
Unfortunately, the limitation of this method is that you can't differentiate
between unavailible and busy messages, however you could get around this by
creating a busy voicemail extension as well as an unavailible one (ie,
prefix extention with 999 for unavailible or 998 for busy).

I hope this helps, good luck with your setup, Anton Jackson-Smith
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