On the iPhone, go into voicemail and tap "Greeting". Record a few seconds of something and tap stop. Before you tap save, use iFuntastic or SFTP to navigate to /var/root/Library/Voicemail on your iPhone. You'll see a file called "Greeting. amr". This is the audio you just recorded. Delete that file and replace it with your custom message which should then be renamed to "Greeting.amr". Tap "Play" on the iPhone to verify your message works. If it plays, tap "Save" and your custom message will be uploaded to AT&T's servers.
2. Enter the destination you wish to transfer the call to, then press [SEND] softkey. 3. Once the receiving party answers, announce the call. 4. To complete the transfer, press again. If you hang up before the call rings, the transfer will fail and the call will be disconnected. Direct to Voicemail: Transfer a call directly to voicemail 1. Press . 2. If a phone rings once and then goes to voicemail or rings only briefly, it You can't definitively know the cause of a phone barely ringing and going to voicemail because neither a phone company nor the phone's operating system provider will tell you if your phone number is blocked.

In order to automatically direct a specific caller to your voicemail without your phone ringing, you’ll have to use a different method depending on which phone you’re using.
Most phones don’t make that as easy as it ought to be. Apple’s iPhone will back up voicemails to your computer along with everything else, but they’re stored in a funky file format that’s not easily played by most software. Most Android phones, meanwhile, store your voicemails on off-site servers.