The following steps should be done from your own campus telephone. If you need to activate voice mail from a different telephone, please call 3-3001 for easy instructions. A welcome to Octel followed by a request for a temporary password. You will be asked to record your name. If you select Standard greeting you are done now.
Callers prefer personal greetings.
Your mailbox is now ready to receive messages. Once in your voice mailbox, the system will tell you whether or not you have messages. All campus telephones have a stutter dial tone if unheard messages are waiting. The dial tone should return to normal after messages are deleted. You should periodically go into your mailbox to see if there are messages waiting for you even though the indicator was not on.