----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karsten Wemheuer" <k...@gmx.de> > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:28:07 AM > Subject: [asterisk-users] Voicemail not working with vm boxes named with > a star > > Hi list, > > in asterisk 1.4 and maybe earlier it was possible to use voicemail > system with mailboxes starting with some special characters like *. > The > line in voicemail.conf was like this: > *123 => , AB,,,tz=cet|attach=no| > > Calling exten => s,n,Voicemail(*123,su) is working in asterisk 1.4. > > In Asterisk 1.8 the above scenario is not working any more. The > Voicemail application reports an error message: > WARNING: app_voicemail.c: leave_voicemail: No entry in voicemail > config > file for '*123' > > Is this a known bug, fixed in newer versions (I currently use 1.8.11) > or > should I file a bug report?
Nope, this is not a bug. The change in behavior was deliberate (see https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-17433). Starting a mailbox with a '*' conflicted with the auto-attendant feature in app_voicemail, wherein a user can be redirected to the 'a' extension by sending the '*' DTMF. There were a number of weird side effects that occurred due to this, most of which involved users who had created a mailbox that began with a '*' unable to check their voicemail. Since it would be very easy to mis-configure your system if you had both the auto-attendant feature enabled and allowed users to have a mailbox/password that started with '*', we prevented the latter scenario. -- Matthew Jordan Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
