Specifications

Guest Mailboxes
You can assign available mailboxes to extensions in the dial plan that do not
have phones connected to them. Guest mailboxes are useful for employees
who work off-premises most of the time. Guest mailboxes provide all the
benefits of a regular mailbox except the subscriber does not receive visual
indication of a message deposited in the mailbox since there is no phone (and
therefore no message waiting light) associated with the mailbox. Guests can
call the voice messaging system from any touch-tone phone to retrieve their
messages.
Review the following notes before you program guest mailboxes:
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If you have empty slots in the control unit, you can assign guest
mailboxes to those extensions in the dial plan that correspond to the
empty slot(s). When you assign guest mailboxes, it is recommended that
you start assignments from the high end of the dial plan. (On a PARTNER
Plus system, work backwards from extension 33; on a PARTNER II or
PARTNER 48 system, work backwards from extension 57.)
After you create a guest mailbox, use “Automatic VMS Cover,” later in
this section, to assign automatic coverage to the guest mailbox. Calls
to these extensions are routed immediately to the mailbox—the call
does not try ring the extension first.
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If you do not have empty slots in the control unit, you can assign guest
mailboxes to the unused extension numbers associated with the voice
messaging system module. Calls to these extensions are routed to the
subscriber’s mailbox after four rings.
The voice messaging system module uses the bottom two extension
numbers associated with the slot in which the module is installed (see
Figure 2-2 in Chapter 2). For example, if the module is installed in Slot
3, it uses extensions 26 and 27. In this case, you can use extensions
22 through 25 for guest mailboxes.
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