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 ${voicemail_option) instead of option in the call to Voicemail below so the correct prompt is used. Thank you! On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 14:53 -0700, John Kiniston wrote: > I think you almost have it. > > In your vmfwd context have a wildcard match that sends the caller > back to the originating voicemail and then define specific extensions > that are allowed to forward. > > > [vmfwd] > exten => _XXXX,1,Voicemail(box@context,option) > same => n,Hangup > > ; Andrew Ruthven > exten => 7231,1,Set(CALLERID(number)=yyy) > same => n,Goto(pstn,xxx,1) > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Andrew Ruthven <andrew.ruthven@catal > yst.net.nz> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I have free calling to between DDIs and cellphones on our group > > plan. I > > figure it'd be nice to allow staff with those cellphones to be able > > to > > forward callers to their VoiceMail to their cellphones using the * > > feature. > > > > I have a standard extension macro that has VoiceMail support. > > So far I've done this by duplicating the standard extension macro, > > and > > adding this rule (where ARG1 is the extension): > > > > exten => a,1,Goto(vmfwd,${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 > > > > -- > > > > Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand > > MIITP, CITPNZ > > > > At work: andrew.ruth...@catalyst.net.nz > > At home: and...@etc.gen.nz > > Card : http://qr.catalyst.net.nz/907675e1 > > Cloud : NZs only real cloud - https://catalyst.net.nz/cloud > > GPG fpr: C603 FC4E 600F 1CEC D1C8 D97C 4B53 D931 E4D3 E863 > > LCA2016: LCA By the Bay, Geelong, AU - lca2016.linux.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 > > > -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand MIITP, CITPNZ At work: andrew.ruth...@catalyst.net.nz At home: and...@etc.gen.nz Card : http://qr.catalyst.net.nz/907675e1 Cloud : NZs only real cloud - https://catalyst.net.nz/cloud GPG fpr: C603 FC4E 600F 1CEC D1C8 D97C 4B53 D931 E4D3 E863 LCA2016: LCA By the Bay, Geelong, AU - lca2016.linux.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