For your second question, how about the application MailboxExists? You could write a quick front-end that asked for the mailbox and then used MailboxExists to test. If it doesn't, perhaps increment a counter (so you can disconnect later if it exceeds some value) and then return to the original prompt for digits.
- Brad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Camp Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:28 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Nortel Meridian Opt 81C and PRI > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Camp > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:08 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Nortel Meridian Opt 81C and PRI > > We've been trying unsuccessfully to connect our Meridian Option 81C to a > TE110P via PRI. We've followed the directions in > asterisk-meridian-a1.pdf (link on > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+legacy+integration), but it > doesn't seem to work on our 81C (even though many, many users report it > works very well on Option 11's). > > Has anyone had any success in getting the above combination to work with > Asterisk? > > The results we get seem to vary depending on how closely we follow the > reference guide that Andy put together. If we follow it exactly, the > d-channel comes up, but the b-channels stay in MBSY instead of IDLE. > > I can post more details and config files if requested, but I'm curious > if anyone has successfully made an Option 81C work with PRI to an > Asterisk box. > > Thanks, > > Greg Update: SUCCESS!!! There were two subtle items that allowed our Opt81C to talk PRI to * using a TE110P: 1) On the 81C in LD 96 we had to ENL SERV <dch> for the d-channel. 2) It appears that the TE110P needs a decent "refresh" time for the b-channels to come up cleanly. For example, on the Nortel if you disable the T1 or d-channel and re-enable it quickly (specifically, anything shorter than about 45 seconds) the TE110P won't come up clean. The Nortel will show all the b-channels as MBSY or FE MBSY. However, if you wait 45s - 1min then the d-channel and b-channels will come up clean every time. Many thanks to all who offered suggestions and worked with us on this! Now, our latest two issues: 1) When a user on the Nortel makes a call to a user on * a 10-digit callerid value shows up on the SIP phone instead of the users extension. Has anyone encountered this and found a work-around? It's been suggested that we use a QSIG interface instead of 5ESS emulation, but did not purchased the Nortel QSIG option so it is unavailable. 2) We would like to use Comedian Mail for company wide voicemail. I can setup user extensions easily enough. I have also setup two 4-digit extensions; one for picking up voicemail and one for leaving voicemail for an arbitrary user. The second ext is used primarily by the receptionist (coming from the Nortel PBX) to redirect callers to users voicemails. The issue I'm having is that if you don't pass an extension to the Voicemail() function * will prompt you one time. If you key the ext incorrectly the system hangs up on you. Is there a way to prompt the caller for the extension to leave a message for, accept the ext, check the database, and give the caller another chance if the ext is invalid? Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ --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 The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. _______________________________________________ --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
