With Internet Messaging for messaging, subscribers can use the telephone to manage messages received at their messaging mailbox. The message waiting indicator (MWI, such as the indicator lamp or a stutter dial tone) is activated to alert a subscriber to the arrival of new messages.
The message can contain up to four media types, specifically voice, fax, text, and file attachments. From the telephone, subscribers can:
Receive an email message that can contain up to four media type components.
Listen to a voiced rendering of the text component (if the messaging Text-to-Speech feature is activated).
Print the text and/or fax component of an email message to a fax machine.
Reply to an email message, whether it came from a messaging subscriber or an Internet email address.
A message is treated as a single entity when accessed via a telephone. When subscribers play a message that contains a voice, a fax, a text, and a file attachment component, they hear the following: