On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 18:36 -0600, Eric Varsanyi wrote:
>>
>> My question is: shouldn't *all* outbound calls through a gateway have
>> their 'From' remapped based on the gateway settings?
>
> The current design intent is that they should not.
>
> This has been discussed often enough that I'm going to create a FAQ for
> it on the wiki (one more item on the to-do list)....
>
> The reason that we don't remap addresses from outside the domain is to
> preserve the caller id on forwarded calls. If you set your sipXecs
> system to forward calls to your cell phone, and someone calls your
> sipXecs number, the call is forwarded and the caller id sent to the PSTN
> is that of the outside caller - you can see who is really calling (as
> opposed to the caller id being that of your office).
>
> The above assumes that your PSTN connection supports sending an
> arbitrary caller id, but if it doesn't this discussion is moot.
>
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense, I'll note the importance of getting the
'From' address tagged properly in the Patton page I'm working on.
-Eric Varsanyi
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