[asterisk-users] Answering machine answers after pickup a phone.

[Doug Lytle]

Don Kelly wrote:
> There are analog phones connected to the same PSTN.

And that is why what you want to do won't work.  To have it do what 
you'd like, you'd need to have Asterisk as the only one receiving the call.

Then your other analog phones would need to be on something like a ATAs 
that would allow them to be connected to your phone system as extensions.

Incoming calls could then be set to ring all of the phones and the one 
that answered first would get the call.

The way you have it setup now, as soon as a ring is detected on the FXO, 
Asterisk will try to process it, when you're picking up a phone that's 
on the same wire as the FXO, Asterisk is still going to process that call.

Doug

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