[asterisk-users] voicemail

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:32:01 Jared Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 14:04 +0000, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> > "Has anyone patched the voicemail app such that inside/outside messages
> > are CLEARLY supported", i.e. they have menu options for recording inside
> > and outside greetings, and the app can accept some form of argument
> > specifying an inside or outside call?
> >
> > This is something that is pretty standard on PBX systems, and I have been
> > beaten up about it again this morning.  Just wondering if anyone had
> > taken the time to make such a patch.
>
> I'm not aware of any such patch, but I was wondering if another approach
> would be to support multiple languages in busy/unavailable prompts.  You
> could then set CHANNEL(language)=outside for outside callers before
> calling the VoiceMail application to get the proper prompts.  (Of
> course, the approach makes it much more difficult to record and manage
> said prompts, but it does have the added benefit of supporting messages
> in a variety of languages.)
>
> Anyway, just my 2 cents (before taxes)...

It does, but it also makes listening to messages rather difficult, as the
fallback for languages only works in one direction.

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Tilghman