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The settings of many of t hese fields affect other aspects of the system
performance, such as the li veliness of the system conversation or the
amount of disk space used. You may need to adjust these fields to m eet
particular application requiremen t s o r opt im i ze system performance.
Figure 9-15 Message-Taking Fields on Application Screen Page 6
Maximum Message Life
Use this field to set the maximum time (in days) that the system
retains a new (unheard) message in the system. The default value of
999 days keeps new messages forever. When the maximum
message life is exceeded, the message is deleted from the system,
even if the intended recipient has not h ea rd it.
Public Hold/Archive msgs
This dual field controls how long p ublic mes sage s are stor ed on the
system, after they are heard. Public messages are not addressed to
a particular subscriber and are avai lable to anyone with public
message access. For details, refer to Chapter 14 Public Interview
Box and Public Messages.
Max person-person recording
Use this field to set the maximum time (in seconds) for messages
traded between people enrolled in the system. This field applies to all
subscribers and guests and controls the largest amount of disk
storage space a single, two-way message can take. Messages that
are shorter than the maximum occupy less disk space, so you do not
necessarily waste disk space by setting this to a large value.
Each second of recording in a mess age takes appr oximately 3000
bytes of storage space. The default value is 300 seconds (5
minutes). Subscribers may lea ve multiple messages of th is l ength to
the same subscriber.