Function 54: Group Mailboxes And The Broadcast Mailbox - ESI 50L Administrator's Manual

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Function 54: Group mailboxes and the broadcast mailbox

Broadcast mailbox
The broadcast mailbox
system's station users who have recorded a personal greeting. The broadcast mailbox's user list cannot be
edited. Guest mailboxes are not included in the broadcast group.
Group mailboxes
Group mailboxes can be used for quickly leaving the same message simultaneously in many individual
users' mailboxes. Anyone who knows the password can leave messages for all users listed as members of
that group and who have recorded a personal greeting. (If no member has a personal greeting recorded, the
group mailbox won't save any messages.) The Installer, Administrator or group mailbox "owner(s)" may set or
change the list of group mailbox members. To record a greeting, press PROGRAM
number; then press # to confirm, and follow the prompts. The default password is the mailbox number. The
maximum recording length is controlled by Function 51; the default is 10 minutes.
Important: A group mailbox is turned "on" (able to record and playback messages) only when its "owner" has
recorded a greeting for it, such as "This is the group mailbox for East Coast Regional Sales." Similarly,
deleting the group mailbox greeting will turn "off" the group mailbox; any outstanding messages will
remain in its members' mailboxes until erased by each member.
Notes: Programming 0 (zero) as the password lets anyone leave group messages or program the group mailbox.
If a user saves a group message, it will be saved as a new message.
Broadcast and group mailboxes can have a maximum of 32 messages per mailbox.
When a message is deleted from the group mailbox, this deletes all copies from its member mailboxes.
Conversely, when the last user to delete his/her copy of the message does so, this deletes the message
from the group mailbox.
Here is the programming sequence:
1. Enter the group mailbox number.
2. Enter group member mailboxes' numbers —
Separate each by #; enter # # to end the list.
Range: Depends on dial plan selected (see
"Numbering plan selections," page B.2).
1
Mailbox numbering depends on the selected dial plan; see page B.2.
E.2
1
is a special group mailbox which can be used to leave messages for all of the
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Function 5: Voice mail programming
and the mailbox
1. 2.
MB Group member mailboxes' numbers
501 102 104 106 107 122 303 314