Administering Amanda; Managing Mailboxes; Creating A Personal Mailbox - Amanda @SOHO Version 3.xx Administrator's Manual

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Administering Amanda

Managing Mailboxes

Creating a Personal Mailbox

You, as system administrator, have a System Administrator mailbox (999) in addition to
your personal mailbox. You also are expected to access some of the default mailboxes to
make sure, for example, that greetings are recorded and scheduled as needed.
When you dial Amanda's extension and identify yourself as mailbox 999, your top level
menu has one additional choice (
System Administration, Amanda plays the System Administration menu:
• to record the system announcement
• to delete the system announcement
• to manage mailboxes
• to shut down the system
• to reset ports
• to set system options
• to review system status
• to return to the previous menu
The rest of this chapter explains how to perform administrative duties using your
telephone to access Amanda and the default mailboxes.
As the system administrator, you create and delete mailboxes. You can also change their
security codes. You can create:
• Personal mailboxes, each of which stores messages for a user. This mailbox must
have the same number as the user's extension.
• Informational mailboxes, each of which provides callers with information. The in-
formation is stored in Greeting 1 for each informational mailbox.
You must create a personal mailbox for each user's telephone extension. You will also
create mailboxes for informational purposes. As you create informational mailboxes, use
numbers that you are unlikely to need as extensions.
The range for mailboxes is from 0 to 999, but the numbers 0, 411, and 990 through 999 are
reserved for Amanda. You can use 1 through 410 and 412 through 989.
A user usually has only one extension and, therefore, only one mailbox. That mailbox
stores messages until the user deletes them or until you delete the mailbox.
The mailbox also stores:
• The greetings that are played when the user does not answer his telephone
• Scheduling information for greetings—if the user decides to schedule them
• Notification records for the user—if the user requests to be called at his extension,
an outside number, or a pager when he has messages
Installing and Administering Amanda@SOHO
) for System Administration. When you select