User’s Guide
Voice mail operation
D.8
Message Recycle Bin (un-delete)
The ESI system stores your 10 most recently deleted messages in a
Message Recycle Bin
to allow you to
recover, or "un-delete,” messages that may have been deleted in error.
You access the Message Recycle Bin through user programming (
PROG/HELP 9
). Press
9
to advance through
deleted messages. Press
8
to restore a message to your mailbox as an old message.
Status indicator lamp
(Not on ESI Cordless Handset or legacy 12-Key Feature Phone.)
The red
status indicator lamp
is located at the top of an ESI 40 Business Phone, 48-Key Feature Phone, or
24-Key Feature Phone. The status indicator lamp indicates three conditions:
•
Phone is off-hook
— Light glows solid red.
•
Phone is ringing
— Light “flutters” continuously.
Note:
The light won’t “flutter” if the ringer volume is turned off.
•
Phone has at least one new voice mail message
— Light blinks.
For example, if a user is wearing a headset, it can be difficult to know whether he/she is on a call. Therefore, just
look at the status indicator lamp — if it’s glowing solid red, the person is, indeed on a call.
Note:
If
more
than one of these three conditions is true at the same station, the status indicator lamp will behave
according to the following priority: off-hook, then ringing, then new voice mail. Here’s an example. You have
a new voice mail message waiting, which makes the status indicator lamp blink. However, if the phone
begins to ring, the status indicator lamp will “flutter” continuously because ringing has a higher priority than
new voice mail; and, if you then pick up the handset or press
SPEAKER
to take the call, the status indicator
lamp glows solid red because the off-hook condition has the highest priority of the three conditions.
Optional voice mail feature: Guest mailboxes
Important:
This is a special, optional feature not explained in the tutorial. Be sure to get your guest mailbox number
from the Administrator.
Guest mailboxes
are perfect for personnel such as outside sales or manufacturing personnel who do not have
an internal extension assigned to them but still need a mailbox. You can handle a guest mailbox as it were a
regular extension (
i.e.,
list it in the directory, assign a programmable feature key for transfer to it, etc.).
Notes:
A guest mailbox must have at least one personal greeting recorded to be activated and, thus, able to
accept messages.
You also can use the off-premises “reach-me” feature (see page D.3) with a guest mailbox.
Personal greetings
You can record up to three different greetings in your own voice indicating the availability to return calls. Also,
you can change the greetings as often as necessary by recording over a previously recorded greeting. (See
“Select personal greeting,” page D.1, to learn how to program these greetings.)
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