Toshiba VP 300, Installation Instructions Manual

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5.12 MESSAGE BLOCK AND MESSAGE PURGE
Beginning with Release 7.1, voice and fax messages for the VP 300 can be marked as unplayable
with the message block command, MBLOCK, or messages can be deleted on a mailbox by mailbox
basis or from every mailbox in the system with the message purge command, MPURGE.
To block or purge a message, the message header number must be identified. To determine the
message header number, use either the L M [mailbox number] M command to list mailbox message
information for a specific mailbox, or the list trace command if only the approximate time of the
message is known. Refer to the Diagnostics, Mailbox Configuration Status section in this chapter,
for more information about listing mailbox messages.
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Marking a Message as Unplayable
Messages that are recorded and sent can be blocked from being played by the message
recipients. Blocking a message makes the message unplayable.
Making a message unplayable has no immediate effect on that message if it is being played.
However, it prevents a mailbox holder from starting to play, or replay, the message after it is
blocked. If a user does attempt to play an unplayable message, the creator name is played. The
status prompt plays, followed by,
“This message has been marked unplayable by the system
administrator. Please erase.”
This same prompt is heard if the message is a fax message that the user is trying to print by entering
1 9 8
. The normal fax message menu, with options to print the fax, is not played. The auto-print
feature is suppressed for fax messages marked unplayable.
If a message is marked for delivery to a remote mailbox but has not been sent, this same prompt is
sent across the network instead of the message. Messages already sent over the network are not
deleted or blocked by MPURGE and MBLOCK.
The mailbox holder may hear silence rather than the preceding prompt if
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The MBLOCK command is entered at the same time the message is played for a local user or
over the network.
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A mailbox holder has forwarded the message using the future delivery option and then
listens to the message while it is still in the mailbox.
To block a message from being played, at the @ prompt enter the command:
MBLOCK x Y
where x is message header number.
Y indicates that the message is to be blocked. The system responds with a request to confirm
this command.
Enter
Toshiba VP Systems Release 7.1 July, 1994
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