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Setting Up the FRITZ!Box Answering Machine
12.2
Setting Up the FRITZ!Box Answering Machine
You can configure up to five different answering machines in
the FRITZ!Box.
Enabling an Answering Machine
1.
Open the FRITZ!Box user interface (see
).
2.
Select “Telephony / Telephony Devices”.
3.
Click “Configure New Device”.
4.
Under “Integrated in the FRITZ!Box”, select the “Answer-
ing machine” option and confirm by clicking “Next”.
5.
Specify the mode, greeting delay and greeting length. (In
the “Greeting only” mode, callers will hear a recording,
but cannot leave any message for you.)
6.
Enter a name for the answering machine and confirm by
clicking “Next”.
7.
Specify which calls the answering machine should ac-
cept. Select one or multiple telephone numbers and
confirm by clicking “Next”.
8.
Check the settings of the answering machine and then
click “Finish”.
Now the answering machine is enabled.
Switching the Answering Machine On or Off
All configured answering machines are displayed in the
FRITZ!Box user interface under “Telephony / Telephony De-
vices”. Here you can disable or delete answering machines
and enable additional functions.
For instance, you can enable the “Send messages via e-mail”
setting for each answering machine. Messages callers leave
on the answering machine then will be sent to you by e-mail.
You can select any e-mail address you want. The messages
are sent as audio files.
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