Customizing Mailbox Options
Guest Mailboxes
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Guest Mai lboxes
Description
A Guest Mailbox is a mailbox you can reserve for an outside party, typically a vendor. Users can
record and send messages to the Guest Mailbox. The Guest can then call in through the Automated
Attendant and listen to them.
To access Guest Mailboxes:
1.
Use
Reports
¿
Mailbox
¿
Numeric List
on page 360 to determine which mailboxes are
set up as Guest Mailboxes.
2.
Once you determine which mailbox number to use, go the Voice Mail Main Screen:
Customize
¿
Mailbox Options
¿
Edit.
For information on adding or editing mail-
boxes, Creating and Accessing Mailboxes on page 168. You see a screen similar to:
The options for Guest Mailboxes are described on the following pages.
Availability:
All versions of the NT Voice Mail.
Notes:
• For instructions on calling (logging on to) a Guest Mailbox, see the User's
Guide.
• To let Automated Attendant callers dial a single-digit code to be routed to a
Guest Mailbox, see Dial Action Tables on page 129 of Customizing Dial
Action Tables.
• An extension user can transfer an outside caller to a Guest Mailbox. See Trans-
ferring a Call to a Mailbox in the User's Guide. This type of transfer is allowed
only if the Guest Mailbox number falls into the extension numbering plan of the
telephone system.
• To set a limit for the mailbox logon time and number of logon attempts, see
Mailbox Logon options in Customizing System Options on page 316.
• To record names for the Guest Mailboxes, see the User’s Guide. To
record a Broadcast Message, use the System Administrator’s Menu. The
Broadcast Message plays to all Subscriber, Message Center, Future Deliv-
ery and Guest Mailboxes.
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