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

[Doug]

At 09:11 10/5/2005, Don Pobanz, wrote:
 >Doug wrote:
 >> Hi,
 >>
 >> Have looked around for info about this:
 >>
 >>
 ><http://www.google.com/search?q=Transfer+directly+to+voicemail+site:lists.di>gium.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

So, in your case the line would something like this?

exten => _8XXX,1,Voicemail(u${EXTEN:3})