[asterisk-users] VoiceMail Access

[Lee Jenkins]

Mike Hammett wrote:
> I was looking at the ILECs’ web sites to determine how their users 
> access voicemail.
> 
> What method should I use for my users checking their voicemail?  Can 
> Asterisk voicemail be made to accept hitting * during the greeting to 
> enter the voicemail system?  If they call their own number, how do I get 
> Asterisk to recognize that and take them to the voicemail system?
> 

Mike,

A common approach is to use the caller id in combination with some digit 
sequence.  For my systems, I've just used 555 as the VM extension.

exten=>555,1,VoicemailMain(${CALLERID(num)})

For access to the VM from outside the system, I've used an AGI script to 
query a database to validate the user.


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Warm Regards,

Lee