Listening live to voicemail being recorded

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 2

I don't suppose there is any way one can listen live to a voicemail as it is being recorded? One thing we miss using voicemail over answering machine is that ability (call-screening).

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:27 am Post subject:

not that I'm aware of. this problem is somewhat offset by caller id, if you have a phone that supports it.

Posts: 164

tabesthome wrote:

I don't suppose there is any way one can listen live to a voicemail as it is being recorded? One thing we miss using voicemail over answering machine is that ability (call-screening).

Well, hook up your answering machine.

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 16

Pepperoni wrote:

tabesthome wrote:

I don't suppose there is any way one can listen live to a voicemail as it is being recorded? One thing we miss using voicemail over answering machine is that ability (call-screening).

Well, hook up your answering machine.

If you hook up your own answering machine, just remember to go online and turn off Vonage voice mail.

Posts: 25 · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 10:48 am Post subject:

It's comical when I listen to my messages and hear a caller say

"Pick up if you're there, this is, so and so, pick up if you're there."

As if he thinks I can actually hear the voice mail live.

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BLIFlyer wrote:

If you hook up your own answering machine, just remember to go online and turn off Vonage voice mail.

No, just delay your voice mail pickup until after your answering machine.

voice mail will pickup in the event of an outage (network, electrical, answering machine failure)
voice mail will pick up if you ignore call waiting

Posts: 9 · New Forum Member Joined: May 16, 2006 Posts: 9

scerruti wrote:

BLIFlyer wrote:

If you hook up your own answering machine, just remember to go online and turn off Vonage voice mail.

No, just delay your voice mail pickup until after your answering machine.

How do you do that?

Thanks

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 16

rhikdavis wrote:

scerruti wrote:

BLIFlyer wrote:

If you hook up your own answering machine, just remember to go online and turn off Vonage voice mail.

No, just delay your voice mail pickup until after your answering machine.

How do you do that?

Thanks

Log onto your account at vonage.com, select "Features," then click on "configure" under "voicemail settings." Under "enable/disable voicemail" you can select how many seconds before voicemail kicks in, from instant to 50 seconds.