9 - 2 Messages
Issue 3 EliteMail VMS/EliteMail Limited
One-Way Messages
A one-way message is left for a subscriber by an outsid e caller. The
subscriber who hears the m essage cannot autom atically reply, because
the voice mail system does not know the sender identity.
Many messages for a subscriber are one-way messages. All messages
taken by a transaction box or an interview box are also one-way
messages. These messages are delivered to the subscriber that owns the
box.
Two-way Messages
Two-way messages are left between subscribers or between subscribers
and their guests. A subscriber l eaves messa ges for other subscribers or
guests during the subscriber conversation with the system.
In the subscriber conversation, the subscriber can select who should
receive a message either by the rec ipient last nam e or exten sion num ber
(actually the recipient Extension # ID) . To select by name, the subsc riber
spells the first three letters of the recipient last name. The system then
offers a list of matching names, and the subscriber selects the recipient.
Now, the voice mail system knows the identity of both the sender and
recipient of the message, and the recipie nt can se nd an imm ediate reply
as soon as the message is heard. The re cipient does no t need to ide ntify
who should receive the reply.
Leaving an automatic reply to a sub scriber message is the major
difference between one-way and two-way messages.
A subscriber may leave two-wa y messages for other subscribers or
guests. A guest, however, can leave two-way messages only for the host
subscriber.