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Skype and voice mail on a Mac

  • 21-04-2011 5:10pm
    #1
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭


    I have recently upgraded all my computers to Macs to get away from Windows issues, and I now have Skype for Mac on them (5.1). I can receive voice mails without any problems, but I can't find any way of SENDING them. The Skype help pages seem to be only concerned with how to set up a welcome message. I have universal (paid) access.

    I have Parallels desktop running Windows XP, but I don't really want to run that every time I use Skype since that is a several times a day exercise in my business.

    Anyone found out how to do this?

    Any answers that solve the problem will be rewarded by ten Ave Marias and twenty brownie points:)


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  • #2
    Liameter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Liameter


    In theory you can leave voicemail for anyone by right clicking on their name and selecting "Leave Voicemail". In practice, it's "greyed out" for me, so I'm not so sure!


  • #3
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Liameter wrote: »
    In theory you can leave voicemail for anyone by right clicking on their name and selecting "Leave Voicemail". In practice, it's "greyed out" for me, so I'm not so sure!

    Thanks. Trouble is, it doesn't even give me a voicemail option, even though I have a paid subscription.


  • #4
    Liameter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Liameter


    Mine looks like this:-

    voicemail.jpg

    Skype version 2.8.0.866


  • #5
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Liameter wrote: »
    Mine looks like this:-

    voicemail.jpg

    Skype version 2.8.0.866

    The greyed out voicemail doesn't appear on mine! I have been rendered dumb. People can talk to me but I can't talk to them.

    I give up. Skype is good, but it is far from perfect, and the support site is useless IMHO!


  • #6
    muggyog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭muggyog


    Possibly a downgrade will solve the problem if version 2.8.0.866 has the option.


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  • #7
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    muggyog wrote: »
    Possibly a downgrade will solve the problem if version 2.8.0.866 has the option.

    Yup. That works! I wonder why the facility was discontinued in version 5? Must avoid letting Skype load updates from now on!

    Anyway, thanks for the advice!


  • #8
    Nonmonotonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭Nonmonotonic


    Mistakenly posted here


  • #9
    muggyog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭muggyog


    ART6 wrote: »
    I wonder why the facility was discontinued in version 5?
    Maybe to save space, the new install is half the size of the older one :)

    Good to see this sorted the problem.
    Who strive - you don't know how the others strive
    To paint a little thing like that you smeared
    Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,-
    Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
    (I know his name, no matter) - so much less!
    Well, less is more, Lucrezia.

    Robert Browning (Browning points?)


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