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

[Don Pobanz]

Doug wrote:
>  >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})
> 

   the 3 needs to be changed to a 1 (strip off the leading 1 character)

I have these two lines in my extensions.conf since all extensions begin 
with a 5 or a 6 and I do some other things with numbers that begin with 
82xx or 83xx.

   exten => _85xx,1,Voicemail(u${EXTEN:1})
   exten => _86xx,1,Voicemail(u${EXTEN:1})

Don Pobanz