[Asterisk-Users] Interrupting voicemail with "*", dropping to "a" extension. Does it work?

[John Lange]

Very very odd.

Its not a DTMF problem because other tones work fine. # for example
skips the OGM as it should.

So could it possible be a config issue?

The voicemail box in question is in the [default] context inside
voicemail.conf.

[default]
2048850872 => XXXX,John Lange,john.lange at open-it.ca

That tells me I need a this in extensions.conf:

[default]
exten => a,1,VoicemailMain() ; If they press *, send the user into VoicemailMain

Am I missing something blazingly obvious?

I didn't think it could be a config issue because I thought it should at
least show the "*" in the console and then complain about no "a"
extension or something but I get absolutely nothing in the console.

Thanks,
-- 
John Lange
President OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872
VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location


On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 20:30 -0400, John covici wrote:
> Works fine here.
> 
> on Friday 05/13/2005 Ronald Wiplinger(ronald at elmit.com) wrote
>  > John Lange wrote:
>  > 
>  > >I've played around with the lightly documented Asterisk voicemail
>  > >feature whereby a caller can press "*" during the playback of the OGM
>  > >and be returned to the "a" extension in the context of the voicemail
>  > >box.
>  > >
>  > >No matter what, Asterisk does nothing when you press "*". It does not
>  > >interrupt the OGM and it certainly does not return to the "a" context.
>  > >
>  > >Watching the console there is no indication of any key press.
>  > >
>  > >Has anyone ever got this working?
>  > >
>  > >Is there an undocumented setting in asterisk someplace which enables
>  > >this feature?
>  > >
>  > >  
>  > >
>  > Have you tried to set dtmf to rfc2833???
>  > 
>  > 
>  > bye
>  > 
>  > Ronald
>  > 
>  > 
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