Message Waiting Indication; Retrieving Messages - ESI 600 User Manual

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Message waiting indication

If you have new messages, you will hear a short prompt ("You have new messages") followed by
internal dial tone whenever you lift the handset to place a call. You can choose to retrieve your
messages then, or place the call.
Note: The ESI-600 doesn't support any visual message-waiting indication on an analog station.

Retrieving messages

You can pick up messages from your station, when away from the office or from another user's ESI
Feature Phone.
1. Lift the handset, and then dial
the main greeting, press
pressing VOICE MAIL,
2. If required, enter your password. the ESI phone system will announce the number of new and old
messages and will start playback of messages with the oldest new message and continue until all
messages and recordings have played.
Voice-prompted instructions will be played at the end of each message. Once you've learned these
prompts (see the chart, "Functions available during analog station voice mail message retrieval," page
J.6) you can proceed more rapidly by pressing one of the following keys any time during the message
or during a prompt.
followed by your extension number. If calling from the outside, at
and enter your extension number or have the operator transfer you by
, and entering your extension number.
Analog stations
J.5