[Asterisk-Users] How to retrieve voicemail from an IP phone?

[Rudolf Ladyzhenskii]

Hi,

You need a single extension to call voicemail. I am using 100.
extensions.conf
exten =>100,1,VoiceMailMain(${CALLERIDNUM})
exten =>100,2,Hangup()

Now, if you simply call VoiceMailMain() without parameters, voicemail system 
will ask you to enter the number of mailbox you want to access. This is 
useful if you want to read any mailbox from any phone.
However, if you specify a parameter like I did, voicemail will automatically 
go into mailbox for the extension you have called from. There is a little 
trick to get it work, though. Normally caller ID is a name like "Joe Smith"
You will have to specify caller ID per user like that: (sip.conf for 
example)
[user1]
callerid="Joe Smith" <101>

This will present asterisk with a way to get both name and extension number.

Rudolf

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Pagquil" <rpagquil at philonline.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to retrieve voicemail from an IP phone?


> Hi Rich,
>    Does the user need to dial his extension just to retrieve the 
> voicemails or he will dial other number to access those voicemails?
> In the config does it mean that when a user dial 3998 he will be able to 
> retrieve those voicemails? So it means that every users must have a 
> mailbox number for which they will retrive their voicemails? I'm really a 
> newbie. =)
>
> Thanks fo the help,
> --ryan
>
> Rich Adamson wrote:
>
>>>       How can I retrieve those voicemails using my ip phone? and how 
>>> will i confiugre it on asterisk?
>>>
>>>Please help I'm very new in asterisk.
>>>
>>
>>Add something like this in your extensions.conf file:
>>
>>; Voicemail access (prompts for exten and password)
>>exten => 3998,1,Wait,1
>>exten => 3998,2,VoicemailMain
>>exten => 3998,3,Hangup
>>
>>; Voicemail access (does not prompt for anything)
>>exten => 3999,1,Wait,1
>>exten => 3999,2,VoicemailMain(s${CALLERIDNUM})
>>exten => 3999,3,Hangup
>>
>>
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