[Asterisk-Users] Sharing variables between contexts

[Frank Schoep]

Hello all,

I'm having trouble getting variables to work the way I want them to, let me 
begin with a simple explanation of the problem, I'm using something like this 
in my extensions.conf:

[default]
exten => 5000,1,SetVar(Recipient=test at test.com)
exten => 5000,2,Goto(mailexten,s,1)

exten => 6000,1,SetVar(Recipient=test at test.com)
exten => 6000,2,Goto(mailexten,s,1)

[mailexten]
exten => s,1,System(/mail.sh ${Recipient})
exten => s,2,Hangup

As an unsuspecting user, I thought this would work - the variable Recipient 
should be available in the [mailexten] context, but apparently this is not 
the case. I'm using Asterisk 1.0.9, is this a known problem or am I just 
expecting the wrong thing?

Sincerely,

Frank