Extension import - default has voicemail - can that be set somewhere?

Voipy

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When importing or creating extensions, the default is for them to have voicemail. Almost none of our customers want that (and I can relate, I don't want voicemail enabled on anything myself). So for us it would make a lot more sense to enable it where required, instead of disabling it where not. Case in point was a customer we are setting up with 600 extensions, we need to now disable it on all of those.
 
I had brought this exact issue earlier about a voice mailbox being created for every extension. I believe @pbxgeek was considering how to address that. There are many instances where there should never be a voice mailbox created for an extension.
 
Ok cool - if I missed your post, apologies for duplicating. I would think that extending the import options is the easiest to deal with this. Currently it's a bit limited - see my post on call group as another option of the import. Then it would just be a matter of setting "voicemail = false" or something to that effect. But there may be other considerations that I am not privy to of course.
 
Ok cool - if I missed your post, apologies for duplicating. I would think that extending the import options is the easiest to deal with this. Currently it's a bit limited - see my post on call group as another option of the import. Then it would just be a matter of setting "voicemail = false" or something to that effect. But there may be other considerations that I am not privy to of course.
My request was that when an extension is created that a mailbox not be created unless you opted for it during extension creation. The bulk creation is an even bigger issue.

You might want to post it as a feature request for FS PBX here: https://github.com/nemerald-voip/fspbx/issues