[asterisk-users] Problem with distortion of initial voicemail prompt

[Frank Tarczynski]

I'm having a problem where the very first words of the Asterisk voicemail
system prompt are distorted into a loud ear-splitting beep. When I dial my
VoiceMailMain extension I get this loud beep followed by the rest of the
initial voicemail system prompt.  After that everything works fine.  I've
have this problem under both v1.2.6 (self-compiled) and now under 1.2.10
(under Astlinux).

My handset is connected to my asterisk box through an iaxy.  With the
exception of this voicemail prompt problem everything else seems to work
fine.  The relevant portions of my voicemail.conf and extensions.conf are
list below:

Voicemail.conf
[zonemessages]
eastern=America/New_York|'vm-received' Q 'digits/at' IMp
[general]
format=wav|gsm|wav49
serveremail=astlinux
attach=yes
skipms=3000
maxsilence=10
silencethreshold=128
maxlogins=3
emaildateformat=%A, %B %d, %Y at %r
tz=eastern
saycid=yes
[default]
1000 => 07055,John Q Public,john at public.com,,tz=eastern
[other]

Extensions.conf
[general]
static=yes
writeprotect=yes
autofallthrough=yes
clearglobalvars=no
[globals]
[default]
[1000]
type=friend
host=dynamic
context=context1
secret=password
mailbox=1000
dtmfmode=rfc2833
allow=ulaw
insecure=very
exten => 8500,1,VoiceMailMain,1000
exten => 8500,2,Hangup
[iaxy]
type=friend
host=dynamic
context=home
secret=iaxy
dtmfmode=rfc2833
mailbox=1000
allow=ulaw
insecure=very