voicemail email possible to display callerid name not just number?

[ghurty]

Is there a way to somehow get it that in the email that is sent with a voicemail it will also display the caller id name nut just number?


Thanks

 

[completetech]

I don't know if it is just me or not but most all of my look ups that are run seem to not be accurate and therefore irrelevant.

 

[Bitnetix]

From the asterisk source in /usr/src/asterisk/configs/voicemail.conf.sample:

; Change the from, body and/or subject, variables:
;     VM_NAME, VM_DUR, VM_MSGNUM, VM_MAILBOX, VM_CALLERID, VM_CIDNUM,
;     VM_CIDNAME, VM_DATE
; Additionally, on forwarded messages, you have the variables:
;     ORIG_VM_CALLERID, ORIG_VM_CIDNUM, ORIG_VM_CIDNAME, ORIG_VM_DATE
; You can select between two variables by using dialplan functions, e.g.
;     ${IF(${ISNULL(${ORIG_VM_DATE})}?${VM_DATE}:${ORIG_VM_DATE})}

The problem is that /etc/asterisk/vm_email.inc states:

; Change the email body, variables: VM_NAME, VM_DUR, VM_MSGNUM, VM_MAILBOX, VM_CALLERID, VM_DATE

But you can ignore that, because we use both VM_CIDNAME and VM_CALLERID and they both work. So you can use VM_CIDNAME instead of VM_CALLERID (or both).