38CHAPTER 4: NBX VOICE MESSAGING

Phantom Mailbox A phantom mailbox does not have an actual telephone associated with it. The administrator sets up a phantom mailbox.

Examples:

If you are a sales representative who travels constantly for your organization and never comes into the office, you still need a way to receive telephone messages. Using your phantom mailbox, you can retrieve, forward, and save messages in the same way that any other employee can but without a physical telephone connected to your NBX system.

If you are an employee who lives a long distance from your office and work from home, customers and others can leave messages in the your phantom mailbox and you can call in to the NBX system to retrieve them.

You retrieve messages from a phantom mailbox in the same way that you retrieve messages from a personal mailbox. See “Listening to NBX Messages” earlier in this chapter.

Group Mailbox A group mailbox is a voice mailbox from which a group of users can retrieve messages. Your administrator creates group mailboxes and can explain how to retrieve messages that are left in the group mailbox.

Example:

During nonbusiness hours, the system can send incoming telephone calls for your sales department to a group mailbox. Your administrator assigns to the appropriate sales people the ability to listen to, forward, or otherwise handle all messages that are directed to the group mailbox.

Your administrator can assign a Message Waiting Indicator for the group mailbox to an Access button on the NBX Business Telephone of each group member. The light next to the mapped button indicates when the group mailbox has messages in it. A group member can press the button to retrieve messages from the group mailbox.

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3Com 2101 manual NBX Voice Messaging

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