Mitel NuPoint Messenger Technical Documentation - Release 7.0
Master Lists
Master lists are useful when more than one person must send messages to the same group of
people. A master list is a line group-specific distribution list that you can define in the
administrator’s mailbox for that line group. There can be up to 99 master lists. All mailbox
owners who call in on that particular line group can use a master list by pressing “00” before the
list number; for example, “009” to address a message to master distribution list 9, or “0025” for
master list 25.
A master list defined for one line group is not necessarily a distribution list for another line group.
They can share master lists if they share the same administrator’s mailbox.
Although you can create master distribution lists over the phone, it is usually easier to use the
server maintenance console due to the size of some lists. It is often necessary to add newly-
created mailboxes to one or more master list. You must use the phone to log in to the
administrator’ mailbox and record spoken names for master distribution lists.
Distribution Lists and Special Mailboxes
Several types of special-function mailboxes use distribution lists to accomplish their purposes.
These include:
• Tree and rotational mailboxes
• Broadcast message mailboxes
• Broadcast password mailboxes
• Broadcast greeting mailboxes
• Broadcast name mailboxes
Tree, rotational, and broadcast message mailboxes all use distribution list 1 to define child or
recipient mailboxes. For tree and rotational mailboxes, the order of child mailboxes in the
distribution list can affect what callers hear.
Broadcast greeting, name and passcode mailboxes use distribution list 9 to identify the recipients
of the broadcasts. Using list 9 for these features allows these mailboxes to also perform other
special functions, such as broadcast messages, which use distribution list 1. The mailbox owner
can define the remaining distribution lists.
For more information on special mailboxes, see the Special Mailbox section, later in this chapter.
Nesting Distribution Lists
“Nesting” refers to the ability to make one distribution list a member of another list. This allows
you to create a distribution list for each department, and then create a company-wide distribution
list that only contains the department lists. Any changes to the department lists are automatically
picked up by the company-wide list.
The server allows unlimited distribution list nesting by default, except in a broadcast mailbox.
Nesting operates as shown in Figure 6-6.
Figure 6-6 Distribution List Nesting
Once the lists in Figure 6-6 are set up, mailbox 301 can make a message to list 2, and the
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