1.6 Receiving Messages

1.61 Answer Window

This pops up when someone else tries to start a Talk session with you.

• Ignore - Press this if you don't want to talk to the person. He will get a message stating that you're not available.

• Ignore Always - Press this if you never want to talk to the person ever again. He will get a message stating that you're never available.

• Refuse - Press this if you don't want to talk to the person. He will get a message stating you're ignoring incoming requests.

• Refuse Always - Press this if you never want to talk to the person ever again. He will get a message stating you're ignoring incoming requests.

• Answering Machine - Route the call to the answering machine.

• AA Always - Always route this person's calls to the answering machine.

• Accept - Start the talk session.

1.62 Auto Answer

You can set AmTalk to auto-answer all incoming chat requests. If you go to the setup menu, you select 'auto answer all' from the bottom of this menu.

Remember you need to create some kind of auto-answer greeting. You do this by going to the setup menu and configuring the auto answer window,

When you return, hopefully you will have received some messages, If you have, this will be indicated within the button bar:

You can see, from this example, that there are 3 new messages. If I click on this button a new window appears, which shows the messages received:

This is a list of all messages that have been sent to you while you've been away from your computer. It tells you the address of the talkee, when the chat attempt happened, how long the message was and whether you've read it or not. The window to the bottom contains the text of the message. The three buttons at the bottom allow you to start a talk session with the person who left the message. If you double click on the name that two will start a chat session with the person who left the message.

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