About a year or so ago, our campus decided to implement a new voice mail system (Cisco's Unity) with our e-mail system (MS Exhange servers). What I liked is the ability to check my voice mail anywhere I had internet access and therefore e-mail access.
What I don't like is that of course, the voice mail files take up space in my allotted e-mail storage space. I periodically clean out my e-mail and voice mail space. What's most frustrating is how the most recent versions of MS Outlook work -- the personal folders MUST live on a hard drive space and not on a networked drive (the reasons why still elude me). So I haul my laptop to work and back each day and put the majority of e-mails needing to be saved on my laptop's hard drive.
So, what happens when you're out of town for a few days? I fill up my server allotment on the main e-mail server and get alerted at least twice a day about being over my space limit.
Today promises to be a meeting free day (hooray!) and I plan to clean out the voice mail and sort/file the e-mail appropriately.
And make a gazillion return phone calls -- mostly involving library instruction, verifying that yes, we did get the gift that was dropped off last week, and yes, you may bring me tons of chocolate, champagne and strawberries.
Sadly, I made the last one up, but I'll still take chocolate, champagne and strawberries.