According to someone else here, that would be idiotic.. (Altho my idea was to put it into a call park where you can than pick the call up.) Or write an AGI script to transfer the call back to the original person that just transferred the call away. But once again, that must be idiotic.
Sincerely, Matthew Marlowe Gear 3 Technologies, LLC 609.252.1155 x614 www.gear3.com |||| (00) >< Choose a job you love, and you will /||\ never have to work a day in your life. =/\= -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andres Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream transfer into outer space Why don't you use "�" in your extensions.conf to catch any invalid dialed number and send it back to the operator. exten => i,1,Goto(MainMenu,1000,1) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream transfer into outer space > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:14:35PM -0500, I wrote: > > So: now I've got my caller just sitting there, transferred into nowhere. > > Is there a way to pick the caller up? I haven't found a way to do this. > > Sorry to be a nag, but no one answered the original question. Is there a > way to pick up a stranded call??? > > If Asterisk "doesn't do this", what about the idea of creating a new > channel for this purpose? It seems to me it should be feasible, but I > haven't spent any time with the code, so am just speculating off the top > of my head. It could work kind of like picking up a parked call: you'd > have a .conf where you specifiy e.g. an extension that will pick up the > first stranded call. > > It seems to me this issue is pretty important. If you're thinking of > Asterisk competing against a commerical PBX, having a situation where a > call can get stranded with no way to pick it up is a significant flaw. > I've seen PBXs that could be set up so that any call not picked up > after some length of time magically rang back to the operator. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
