On 4 August 2016 at 13:18, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let's get this straight. You call yourself from any phone in the world > and press '*' while listening to the message, you wind up in your own > mailbox and you believe that means that you don't need a password? Do > you think that the phone system somehow knows that it is you calling > and not one of the other 7.4 billion people on the planet. The > password is how it knows. >
You seem to misunderstand even after I have explained. I don't need a password when calling my mailbox from my own registered phone (not calling from any other phone). I don't need to call my mailbox from other phones on the planet, so I don't need a password. Consider the voicemail you get from your mobile network on your mobile phone. You don't access it from any phone in the world; you only access it from the mobile phone which has your SIM, and you probably don't enter a password for it. > This seems to conflict with the first paragraph. Are you being asked > for the mailbox number or the password? In a properly set up system, > entering '*' during the message should put you into the callee's > mailbox and ask for a password. Calling '*98' from your own phone, if > the extension I originally showed you exists, should put you directly > into your own mailbox without asking for a password. The password is only asked if a password has been set. A password is also asked if any number is entered after the 'mailbox' prompt. Nabeel
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