[Asterisk-Users] Transfer directly to voicemail (blind transfer)?

[Don Pobanz]

Doug wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have looked around for info about this:
> 
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=Transfer+directly+to+voicemail+site:lists.digium.com> 
> 
> 
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+VoiceMail
> 
> If we are using 5 digit extensions (10102: 10 for the company,
> 102 for the extension), where can we put something
> so that "102*" goes straight to voicemail without
> waiting while the extension rings?
> 
> Here is what we have in extensions_additional.conf:
> 
> exten => 100,1,Goto(ext-local,10100,1)
> exten => 101,1,Goto(ext-local,10101,1)
> exten => 102,1,Goto(ext-local,10102,1)
> exten => 103,1,Goto(ext-local,10103,1)
> 
> Would something like this in extensions.conf work?
> 
>   exten => _XXX*,1,Voicemail(u${EXTEN:1})
> 

I don't believe this is the correct syntax. It should be:
exten => _XXX*,1,Voicemail(u${EXTEN:0:3})

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+variables

Another method would be to prefix with a digit instead of suffix with an 
"*". For us, all of our extensions are three digits and begin with a 5 
or a 6 (5xx or 6xx). To transfer to voice mail we stick an eight in 
front of the extension (85xx or 86xx). It works well for us.

Don Pobanz