I setup a PBX recently and everything was functioning fine up until Monday. Someone in the office I have it set up at had called someone voice mail and left the phone off the hook over the weekend, sadly I did not have “maxsec” set at the time and came in Monday to weird issues and a 3.7GB voicemail file. I ended up having to restart asterisk to clear the call out. But now when certain lines dial *97 it prompts “Comedian mail” like dialing *98 and instead of prompting “Password”. I am not seeing a settings change other than setting maxsec to 300. I did notice voicemail.conf was truncated and wend in and re-enabled a bunch of the voice mail accounts to refill the config file.
yes I did, I even got the point last night of just rebooting the whole PBX server just in case there was some process that hung up when I restarted asterisk on Monday. I also went in at disabled/enabled all the mailboxes to force freepbx to rewrite the config from its end as well.