Nortel Call Pilot 150 Telephone Admin Instructions Manual

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Mailbox properties
Apart from mailbox Class of Service settings, you can change these mailbox properties:
Company Directory
Message Waiting Notification
Outdial route
Alternate extensions
Express Messaging Line
Call Screening
Mailbox properties are not included in a Class of Service. When you add a mailbox, you can 
change these options without changing the Class of Service.
Company Directory
The Company Directory is...

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You can apply dialing restrictions to display telephones and the extensions connected to the 
system. For more information on restricting outdialing refer to “Restricting outdialing” on page 
23.
If you set the Outdial route to anything but None, there is a potential for unauthorized 
long-distance dialing. You can prevent this by creating outdialing restrictions.
Alternate extensions
You can assign up to two alternate extensions to each Subscriber...

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Call Screening
Call Screening lets subscribers determine who is calling before they accept a call. Call Screening 
is useful if there is no Caller ID available. The system records the caller’s name, calls the 
subscriber’s telephone, announces the name of the caller and offers options such as accepting the 
call or taking a message.
Call Screening applies to external calls dialed by callers using the extension dialing...

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Initializing a mailbox
Initializing a mailbox prepares the mailbox to receive messages. A mailbox cannot receive and 
store messages and does not appear in the Company Directory until it is initialized.
Initializing a mailbox involves:
 choosing a password from four to eight digits long that does not start with zero
 changing the default password to the new password
 recording the mailbox owner’s name in the Company Directory
To initialize a mailbox...

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Chapter 4
Working with mailboxes
Adding a Subscriber mailbox
Assign all Subscriber mailboxes mailbox numbers that begin with the same digit. This helps you to 
identify the mailbox type. If the system times out before you enter all the values for a mailbox, use 
the procedures in “Changing a mailbox” on page 32 to finish setting up the mailbox.
To add a Subscriber mailbox
1Press ≤·°‹.
Enter the System Administrator Mailbox number and password,
and then...

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12Press NEXT if you want to use a line
or
press CHNG
 if you want to use a line within a line pool.
13Enter the Line or Pool number and press OK
.
Line numbers must be between 1 and 500.
Although line pools are labelled by a letter such as A, B or C, 
CallPilot accepts only numbers. If you enter a line pool use 1 for A, 
2 for B, 3 for C, and so on.
14Press OK
.
15Press CHNG
 if you want to assign an Alternate extension
or
press NEXT
 if you do not want...

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Adding a Guest mailbox
Assign all Guest mailboxes mailbox numbers that begin with the same digit. This helps you to 
identify the mailbox type.
To add a Guest mailbox
1Press ≤·°‹.
Enter the System Administrator mailbox number and password,
and then press OK
.
2Press MBOX
.
3Press ADD
.
4Enter the Guest Mailbox number.
5Press OK
.
6Press OK
 or £.
7 Enter a Class of Service from 1 to 16.
8Enter the mailbox owner’s last...

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Adding an Information mailbox
Assign all Information mailboxes mailbox numbers that begin with the same digit. This helps you 
identify the mailbox type. Assign a Class of Service that has the maximum message length. To 
accommodate an average Information Mailbox recorded message, assign a Class of Service of 
either 7 or 8. These Classes of Service have a greeting length of 10 minutes.
To add an Information mailbox
1Press ≤·°‹.
Enter the System...

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Adding many mailboxes
You can save time by creating multiple mailboxes when you set up CallPilot 150 for the first time, 
or when you need to add a large number of mailboxes to the CallPilot system. Adding many 
mailboxes creates Subscriber mailboxes for the range of extensions that you define. You must use 
extensions that are not already assigned to mailboxes. You can add mailboxes only for the amount 
of working...

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6Enter a Class of Service from 1 to 16.
7Press NEXT
 if you do not want to assign outdialing and go to step 11
or
press CHNG
.
8Press NEXT
 if you want to use a line
or
press CHNG
 if you want to use a line within a line pool.
9Enter the Line or Pool number and press OK
.
Line numbers must be between 1 and 500.
Although line pools are labelled by a letter such as A, B or C, 
CallPilot accepts only numbers. If you enter a line pool use 1 for A, 
2 for B,...