BU Voice Mail Portal
Telecom is preparing to announce a new Voice Mail Portal to all Charles River Campus staff and faculty. Instructions about the service are already available on Tech Web. Clients will be able to receive notification of new voice mail messages via e-mail, text message, or a call to the phone number of their choice (such as a mobile phone).
Below is the full text of the announcement they are sending out soon. Please look at the information posted on Tech Web. We should escalate tickets to phone@bu.edu as an external mail for any questions we are unable to answer. Some things of note, the client will need to log in to http://nowmsg.bu.edu with their seven digit BU phone number (without any dashes) and the same passcode they use to access voice mail on their phone. The form at that site is a little squirrely – it auto-saves after you type in each item, such as First or Last Name. Additionally, clients will receive a confirmation e-mail or text message depending on which features they enable.
We are pleased to introduce a web-based portal for you to customize your mailbox options. A key feature of this portal is the ability to deliver voice mail to your e-mail inbox.
Features you can manage from the portal include:
The e-mail address to which you would like the voice mail messages you receive to be delivered
The name that will be displayed when you leave a message for a subscriber that has set up e-mail delivery of their voice mail messages
Changing the pass code you use for accessing your mailbox account (this affects both telephone access as well as subscriber portal login)
Your preferences for playback of messages retrieved over the telephone including date, time, and name of message sender; hearing newest message first; and auto-play after logging in
Outcall and text notification of messages — if your class of service allows for these features
For directions on accessing the Voice Mail Subscriber Portal and setting up your account for email delivery of voice mail messages, please see our instructions on TechWeb.If you have any questions or need further assistance, you may contact IS&T Telecommunications at 353-2097 or phone@bu.edu