>- if I force setflag(4) to be true I always get the error "could not >contact announcement server" or "could not contact voicemail server" There are two options: 1. Sems is not running. 2. Sems hasn't been configured to listen to /tmp/am_fifo. As /tmp/am_fifo is a default value, i would say that you forgot to start Sems. -Raphael.