Voicemail preferences

[Job]

Hi,

With asterisk their are multiple ways of working with the voice-mail application.
The nice thing is that most things that annoy you as user can be tailor made.

Here are some option that i feel are handy:

Don't ask for password
In the extensions.conf in the [default] context their is an extension assigned to the voicemail application.
By adding a 's' in front of the mailbox you won't be prompt for the password.

Code:

exten = 2345,1,VoiceMailMain(s${CALLERID(num)}@default)

Automatic goto next message
Quickly going through your voice-mails can be some-kind time consuming.  By adding the following line to the general context of the voicemail.conf you can automaitcly skip to the next message after pressing 7 or 9.

Code:

nextaftercmd=yes

Disable the 'leave message after the tone ....' message
By using the option 's' in de dialplan you can disable the default voicemessage.

Code:

exten=s-NOANSWER,1,Voicemail(${ARG1},su)

These parts could be default find inside the extensions.conf under the macro's: macro-stdexten and macro-stdexten-followme.

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This menu controls the Voicemail operation of your extension, assuming Voicemail is available on your system. This menu controls the basic telephony ...

[gfacer]

Jan, that advice for removing the need for the password doesn't seem to work for my set up. Has anything changed recently, or any other settings that need to change in conjunction with that to make it work?

(like the user having no password set up, for example)

Edit: Yep, that was the problem

Thanks, Greg