One strategy is to use a voice mail system which can be configured wait a given amount of time before it answers the call, such as Asterisk, and simply include it as a destination when ringing the end user's phone.  If the user doesn't pick up, the VM system will pick up.  SEMS doesn't support anything like this at present.  It's not the most aesthetically pleasing way of doing it, since it results in a every call being dispatched to the voice mail system.  There are also situations where this is not desireable, such as when your destination set includes destinations which are indirect, or go through futher proxy servers, and thereby make it difficult to determine whether the user or users are ultimately online or not, forcing the caller to wait for the timeout when in the case of the user(s) being offline, it should go straight to VM.  But doing this does make it possible to have a separate timeout for all INVITES and for VM.

- Jim


Glenn Dalgliesh wrote:
After reviewing the documentation and mailing list I think I can conclude that their is no way currently to have a calls end up at a Voicemal process or server based on timeout values, at this time provided by fr_ commands, without setting this value for all calls and having all call remaining stateful.
 
If true has anyone found any work arounds to this problem?
I sawl mention from an email from Jan that it was a feature on the list anyone seen any update related to it?
 
Thanks

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