On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> Using FWD and accessing it via this extension:
> 
> exten => _*8.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> This works *perfectly* with SIP phones.  However with a regular phone 
> plugged into an FXS card (PhoneJack PCI in my case) the '.' traps the first 
> number dialled after *8 and tries calling that.  I've tried setting a digit 
> timeout but it doesn't seem to help.
> 
> Changing that to 
> 
> exten => _*8XXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> works, but is hardly optimal, since I plan on changing my dialplan to allow 
> varied-length numbers for other things.
> 

I can't explain it without looking at the code, and I'm short on time so I
won't go there but the way that works best for me is:
exten => _*8X.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED])

James

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