Ahh makes sense, so I would need a DID for each phone and the dial plan will just distinguish calls by the DID not CallerID. Thank you for the input.-- Jag
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:17:00 -0400Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] multiple voicemail in asterisk On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:01 -0400, Jag Basrai wrote: I recently started using Asterisk as our homes voicemail. Its rather convienient to have multiple voice mails, one for each member of the family. A week ago I opened my cell phone bill and noticed that I could probably save $5 per cell phone if I had the cell phone forward a missed call to asterisk rather than the voicemail service provided by Fido. With 5 cell users that's $25/month. So what I did was in my dial plan i just checked for CallerID of the cell phone if it matched a certain number it would go straight to a specific voicemail bypassing the auto attendant. But when I did this (which worked fine if the cell called the asterisk box) the CallerID forwarded by Fido is the same as the person who called not the CallerID of the cell phone. So if my cell number is 123-123-1234 and the number calling me is 111-111-1111 then the cell will forward 111-111-1111 not 123-123-1234, which I thought was the case as the cell would forward its own number. Now I can not figure out how to make my dial plan do what it needs too. Does anyone know how I could set it up so that each cell user will have its own voicemail rather than going through auto attendant. Is this even possible?This is normally done with DID, Direct Inward Dialing. I'm told that one can get DIDs from VoIP providers fairly cheaply. -- John Van Ostrand Net Direct Inc. Chief Technology Officer 564 Weber St. N. Unit 12Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6 map [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 519-883-1172 ext.5102 Linux Solutions / IBM Hardware Fx: 519-883-8533 _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com - your fast, personalized homepage with all the things you care about in one place. http://www.live.com/getstarted
