[asterisk-users] VoiceMail - Allow * for only some users

[Andrew Ruthven]

Hi John,

Ah ha!  Excellent. That works.

Now for a further tweak, in my stdexten I set voicemail_option with
with b or u, as appropriate and use ${voicemail_option) instead of
option in the call to Voicemail below so the correct prompt is used.

Thank you!

On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 14:53 -0700, John Kiniston wrote:
> I think you almost have it.
> 
> In your vmfwd context have a wildcard match that sends the caller
> back to the originating voicemail and then define specific extensions
> that are allowed to forward.
> 
> 
> [vmfwd]
> exten => _XXXX,1,Voicemail(box at context,option)
>  same =>          n,Hangup
> 
> ; Andrew Ruthven
> exten => 7231,1,Set(CALLERID(number)=yyy)
> same =>         n,Goto(pstn,xxx,1)
> 
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Andrew Ruthven <andrew.ruthven at catal
> yst.net.nz> wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I have free calling to between DDIs and cellphones on our group
> > plan. I
> > figure it'd be nice to allow staff with those cellphones to be able
> > to
> > forward callers to their VoiceMail to their cellphones using the *
> > feature.
> > 
> > I have a standard extension macro that has VoiceMail support.
> > So far I've done this by duplicating the standard extension macro,
> > and
> > adding this rule (where ARG1 is the extension):
> > 
> >   exten => a,1,Goto(vmfwd,${ARG1},1)
> > 
> > Then in the vmfwd context I have rules like this (I need to set the
> > CALLERID(number) so our SIP provider accepts the call):
> > 
> >   ; Andrew Ruthven
> >   exten => 7231,1,Set(CALLERID(number)=yyy)
> >   exten => 7231,n,Goto(pstn,xxx,1)
> > 
> > Which is working nicely. But, I thought, can I simplify this and
> > just
> > have one macro?
> > 
> > So I've tried doing the following to fold it into my standard
> > extension
> > macro:
> > 
> > 1) Tried using a/_7231 but that didn't match (well, it was worth a
> > try)
> > 2) exten => a,1,Goto(vmfwd,${ARG1},1) works for calls to my
> > extension,
> > but if I disable the 7231 rules in vmfwd, I get:
> > 
> >   [2016-07-22 09:01:07.691] WARNING[11488][C-00000420]: pbx.c:6646
> > __ast_pbx_run: Channel 'SIP/192.168.43.254-0000005a' sent to
> > invalid
> > extension but no invalid handler:
> > context,exten,priority=vmfwd,7231,1
> > 
> >   and the call hangs up, not a very nice user experience.
> > 
> > The second option could work, as long as the user lands back into
> > VoiceMail if there is no valid extension. I thought about using
> > GoSub,
> > but how do I get the caller back into VoiceMail?
> > 
> > I've done a bunch of searching for this, but haven't found any
> > general
> > solutions. Is it possible to do what I'm trying to achieve, or is
> > there
> > a better approach?
> > 
> > This is Asterisk 11.13.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> > 
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Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand
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