[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk@Home and VoiceMail

[Don Murray]

Hi all,

Yeah, another newbie here but I'm getting down to just the "nice to 
have" problems not the "need to have" problems so life with Asterisk is 
good :)

I have installed Asterisk at Home 0.6.  I have 2 Polycom IP500's plugged 
into the network, no outside connection yet but I have ordered a TE110P 
card from Digium.

I have a voicemail related questions.  Voicemail is working but is there 
a way to....

(1) have dialing one's own phone automatically put you into voicemail?  
If I connect to my own extension I get to leave a message at my 
voicemail box (because I am on the phone at the moment) but no amount of 
key banging (*98 specifically) seems to get me into accessing my 
voicemail-mode, which is the behaviour I would prefer. 

(2) Reconfigure Polycom phones to remap the call made when you push the 
"voicemail" buttton, to a voicemail extension, for example.  I have a 
voicemail extension (111) working so if I could reprogram this button it 
would solve (1).  The thing is that at the moment pushing the voicemail 
button on the phone dials the phone's own extension by default.  I konw 
if the voicemail button doesn't work I can look forward to having to 
explain why to each and everyone person with one of these phones, 
probably twice each :)

I have successfully configured a voicemail extension that behaves 
exactly the way I would like the voicemail button to work.

Thanks,

Don