On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:10:23PM -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote: > 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? > 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.
It's also quite easy to set-up if you call your own extension number from your extension it goes into voicemail for you extension. You can have another number as above to access voicemail from another extension. Steve -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44-(0)7775 755503 UK +44-(0)20 79932612 / US +1-(310)8577715 / Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 Skype/GoogleTalk/AIM/Gizmo/Mac stevekennedyuk / MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users