callweaver/asterisk questions

[geoffrey mendelson]

I have a few asterisk/callweaver questions. Callweaver docs seem to be  
very rudimentary, so I've looked at asterisk docs, but still can't  
find the answers I need.

Here are my questions, any help would be appreciated. I've tried to do  
a web search and looked at the Oreily book with no luck.

1. How do you force an invalid extension directly dialed to voicemail.  
For example, if you have a menu, you can use the i extension, but what  
if someone dials it directly from an external (SIP) phone? For example  
if I don't have an extension 1234, if you dial it, you get the beep- 
beep-beep the ... is unavailable message.

I want it to go to a voicemail box. The i extension does not work.

2. How do you force the context for an external SIP device or system.  
I have an X-Lite softphone and I want to FORCE the calls to a context.  
It always uses the context of the domain name. The context= setting   
in sip.conf does not work. Note, I want this to work no matter what is  
in the context setting, if there is one in X-Lite itself.

3. Does anyone have a talking clock that works under Callweaver? I  
found a PERL program for asterisk, but the beeps keep disappearing. I  
ended up writing one in extensions.conf, but it's not very accurate,  
and has to be IMHO the worst abuse of a config file I have every heard  
of. :-)

Thanks in advance for any help.

Geoff.
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