DialPlans and Voicemail, how do they work together?

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Okay, this one is not so much an issue as it is a question.

I've been racking my brain trying to figure this out...
Let's say I've got a phone connected to an ATA, which is in turn connected 
to my SipSorcery account on line 1.
(It would be a 2 line ATA, with the second one configured for SipGate, but 
not on all the time, unlike line 1).

<---> Question 1:

I won't be near a computer/laptop all the time, and I was wondering which 
voicemail would calls coming through the Google Voice would go to.

The obvious answer might seem like "Google Voicemail, of course"...
But, what if I'm not near a computer, but I am near my ATA-connected 
phone, what then?

How do I dial in from my hypothetical ATA-connected house phone, to check 
my voicemails (I have only one Google Voice account/number, and that's 
used for the outgoing/incoming of the phone, and so is impossible to dial 
into)?

Is it possible to send those calls that went unanswered to SipGate's 
voicemail (or any other free voicemail provider) so that I can dial in 
from the ATA phone to get them?

<---> Question 2:

Is it possible to not send calls coming through Google Voice to it's own 
voicemail, but instead to forward those calls to another number, like my 
SipGate number or something like that, so I could dial in and check them 
that way?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by XANAVi...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 4:57

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Ignore Question 2, it's the same as the last part of #1.

Original comment by XANAVi...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 4:59

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Someting I've been proposing for a little while now is to sign up for a second 
Google
Voice number, add it as a contact to your primary, and then block the contact. 
Then,
edit the dial plan so that when you dial your own (primary) GV number, SIP 
Sorcery
will place the call using your secondary GV number. Then, since the number is 
blocked
in your primary, your call should go straight to vm. Hit * to interrupt the 
outgoing
message and enter your PIN to retrieve your messages.

I have posted my first attempt at implementing this concept. Please download the
script and look at the top section for a new, duplicate set of settings that 
need to
be entered. Of course, you will need to send an invite to yourself at a 
different
email address and create an entire second account that you will use for nothing 
other
than calling your primary number. Look over this script and let me know if 
you're
comfortable making the added changes up top. Its not all that much.

http://google-voice-sipsorcery-dialplans.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/SIP%20Sorcery%
20Dial%20Plans/Contrib/2009-01-15%20Call%20VM%20from%202nd%20GV%20line

or http://is.gd/6jjEy

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 1:04

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Well, I'll try that, and I'll choose a number no one knows. :)

Original comment by XANAVi...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 2:23

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If Google Voice calls my SipGate number when a someone is calling my Google 
Number, 
and I did not answer it, which phone would catch the unanswered call and put it 
on 
it's voicemail?

Would Google catch it first or would my SipGate number take it when I'm not 
there?
It just seems kind of confusing on what would happen when Google forwards to my 
SipGate number.

Original comment by XANAVi...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2010 at 9:08

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Just make sure you delete the voicemail "device" from your sipgate account and
sipgate will never answer with its own voicemail. We treat sipgate as nothing 
more
than a system that "drops" an inbound phone call off the regular network and 
onto the
Internet. It is capable of much more, but that's all we're using it for in this 
scenario.

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2010 at 4:49

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Ah, okay then.

So, if I get a call on my Google Voice number, it rings my SIPGate phone, and 
if I 
don't answer it, it will send it to Google's Voicemail, right?

Original comment by XANAVi...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2010 at 12:17

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So long as you have deleted (or never configured) the voicemail feature on 
sipgate, yes.

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2010 at 1:01

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How many rings does it take for that to happen (to have Google Voice send my 
unanswered calls to voicemail)?

I can't figure it our myself, I don't have any numbers that I can use to test 
with.

Original comment by XANAVi...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2010 at 8:13

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About 10, I believe. Maybe closer to 6. Its just a "normal" amount of rings 
before vm 
picks up.

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2010 at 12:51

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Is there any combination of the above linked plan and the complex dial plan? 
(see:
http://is.gd/6jjEy )

Original comment by t.hook...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2010 at 12:29

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t.hookham, if you still have questions, could you please open your own ticket? 
The
main issue on this ticket has been resolved and I need to close it.

Thanks!

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2010 at 6:03

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