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pagerfromstring
Changes the From: string of voicemail notification pager messages.
emailbody
Supplies the email body of voicemail notification email messages.

Please note that all the emailsubject, emailbody, pagersubject, and
pagerbody settings can use the following variables to provide more
in-depth information about the voicemail:

• VM_NAME
• VM_DUR
• VM_MSGNUM
• VM_MAILBOX
• VM_CALLERID
• VM_CIDNUM
• VM_CIDNAME
• VM_DATE

emaildateformat
Specifies the format of the date and time for outbound email notifications. For
more information on the format, see the strftime(3) manpage.
mailcmd
Supplies the full path and filename of the program Asterisk should use to send
notification emails. This option is useful if you want to override the default email
program.
nextaftercmd
Skips to the next message after the user hits 7 or 9 to delete or save the current
message. This can be set only globally at this time, not on a per-mailbox basis.

Voicemail Zones
As voicemail users may be located in different geographical locations, Asterisk provides
a way to configure the time zone and the way the time is announced for different callers.
Each unique combination is known as a voicemail zone. You configure your voicemail
zones in the [zonemessages] section of voicemail.conf. Later, you can assign your voi-
cemail boxes to use the settings for one of these zones.
Each voicemail zone definition consists of a line with the following syntax:
zonename=timezone | time_format
The zonename is an arbitrary name used to identify the zone. The timezone argument is
the name of a system time zone, as found in /usr/share/zoneinfo. The time_format ar-

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