[Serusers] Asterisks to ser to asterisk (voicemail)

[Dave Bath]

Hey Girish,

Thanks for swift reply!  

I had come to same conclusion about dialplan too... however, I am not
sure the best way of proceeding.  In our network, most users will have
both alphanumeric usernames and 4-digit traditional style extension
numbers - both for those with 12-key phones and for easy mapping to
external numbers.  For this reason, it seemed easiest to base the
Asterisk VM boxes on those 4-digit extension numbers... then rather than
add an extension for every user in *, I just have a single rule using
the {exten} variable.  Otherwise I need some way of mapping alphanumeric
and digit codes to the same mailbox in *... very confusing... I thought
that it would be a lot easier to let * handle the simplest one, and make
Ser always pass it the format it's expecting... there must be  way to do
a lookup(alias) and then re-write the URI with the alias before it gets
forwarded.?

Sorry if my explanation about the 404 is confusing... it's confusing for
me too! Attached is the ser.cfg (I hope it retains the indentation!)

Many thanks again,

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: GR S [mailto:gr_sh2003 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 28 July 2004 22:04
To: Dave Bath
Cc: serusers at lists.iptel.org
Subject: RE: [Serusers] Asterisks to ser to asterisk (voicemail)

Hello,

--- Dave Bath <dave at fuuz.com> wrote:

<snip> 
> (1) If a user is called with their alphanumeric ID instead of their
> numerical alias, * does not pick up the call.  This is as expected, as
> the dial pattern in * is _[1-9] [0-9] [0-9] [0-9].  However, it must
be
> fairly common to call people with their email addresses for example...
> so how can I make ser pass the alias to * instead of the alpha URI?

I think the problem is in your dialplan. Try adding something like this:
exten => _.,1,Dial(SIP/....
 
> (2) If a user is offline, I get a 404 immediately, instead of anything
> else - for example diverting immediately to vm.  I don't quite
> understand this at the moment.. as I have the t_on_failure set up
before
> the location lookups... does the t_on_failure not catch 404 failures?

 
Sorry, I dont understand this problem. Looks to me as a misconfiguration
in the config file.
Please post your ser.cfg. There are many in this forum who can tell you
about the problem after
verifying the config file. I saw your previous post and excerpts from
the config file, but did not
quite understand that.
 
> Thanks again everyone,
> 
> Dave
> 

Best Regards,

=====
Girish Gopinath  <gr_sh2003 at yahoo.com>


		
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