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Cisco Unity Express Voice-Mail and Auto-Attendant CLI Administrator Guide for 3.0 and Later Versions
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Chapter 7 Configuring Voice Mail
Planning Mailbox Configuration
Configuring an Announcement-Only Mailbox
Beginning in version 7.1, you can configure announcement-only mailboxes. These mailboxes can play
the user greeting and disconnect the call only; they cannot take any messages from callers or send
messages.
Announcement-only mailboxes enable you to:
• Perform any operations that can be performed on a greeting in personal mailboxes, such as recording
or deleting.
• Use all the new greeting types introduced by the multiple greeting feature. For more information,
see the
Configuring Multiple Greetings, page 10.
• Configure a General Delivery Mailbox as an announcement-only mailbox.
Also, announcement-only mailboxes:
• Cannot be part of everyone’s list (9999)
• Are counted against the mailbox license
• Have a default size of 5 minutes when they are created, but the default size can be modified later
Because announcement-only mailboxes cannot send or receive messages, you cannot:
• Create distribution lists for them
• Configure notification devices for them
Therefore announcement-only mailboxes cannot:
• Have messages addressed to them
• Have notifications cascaded to them
• Receive broadcast messages
Subscribers can log in to announcement-only mailboxes using either the TUI, VVE, or IMAP. However,
there is no reason to use IMAP to log into announcement-only mailboxes because they do not contain
messages.
The following features are available only for personal mailboxes and cannot be used with
announcement-only mailboxes:
• Message expiration time
• Message size
• Fax configuration
The following operations are available only for personal mailboxes in the TUI and VVE and cannot be
used with announcement-only mailboxes:
• Playing new, saved, or deleted messages
• Sending messages
• Setting message parameters, such as configuration lists or notification devices
SUMMARY STEPS
1. configure terminal
2. voice mailbox owner name type announcement-only [size seconds]
3. end