[Asterisk-Users] How to distinguish between UNEXISTENT channels v/s UNAVAILABLE channels

[Álvaro Palma]

Is there a way to distinguish, in the answer of the Dial command,
when a channel is not available (for example, an unregistered but
valid SIP user) v/s when the dialed channel is inexistent, even
when it matches an extension?

For example, I've the following simple dial plan:

exten => _XX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN},10,)
exten => _XX,2,GotoIf(DIALSTATUS = CHANUNAVAIL?4:3)
exten => _XX,3,VoiceMail(u${EXTEN}@default)
exten => _XX,4,Hangup()
exten => _XX,102,VoiceMail(b${EXTEN}@default)
exten => _XX,103,Hangup()

I've also defined a couple of SIP users, 01 and 02, with their
corresponding mailboxes. My idea is that, if somebody dial
these valid extensions, if the users is not connected at
the time, a message can be recorded, and also, if somebody
dials an extension that matches the pattern, but it's invalid
(e.g., 10), the call is inmediatly terminated.

The dialplan showed fails, because if the valid SIP user
is not registered, the DIALSTATUS is always CHANUNAVAIL,
the same that if the extension is invalid, so no call is recorded
for my valid user :(

Is there a way to do this without having to declare explicitly
every valid extension? If I remove the line:

exten => _XX,2,GotoIf(DIALSTATUS = CHANUNAVAIL?4:3)

the message is recorded if the valid SIP user is not registered, but
the VoiceMail application is called even for an unexistent user,
generating an error in the command line, that is maybe harmless, but
anoying (and no elegant at all :) ). Besides, the user who dialed
the wrong extension doesn't receive a 404 Not Found in that case, so
he doesn't know he dialed a wrong number.

Thanks a lot for your attention, patience and help.

-- 
Atly.
Álvaro Palma