My phone will not allow anyone to leave a message. The phone just greets them with

You can skip tracing via texts or phone calls:
Phone calls: Local phone calls are answered more so prefer a mobile phone that allows you set up local phone numbers whenever desired.

Custom greeting messages: When a person doesn't answer the phone call, you are instructed to leave a voice message. Now, when the other person calls you back and your greeting message differs from the one that you had left in the voice message, he would straight away hang up your call.

You can also use tools for skip tracing to do the needful task!

We always programme the voicemail to 555. If you have something different change what is below, which is our 'one sheet' user guide from www.dschiltern.co.uk

All Types of Phones

1. Your mailbox number will be the same as your extension number.

2. Default password is 1 2 3 4

3. Voicemail group number is 555 (unless programmed differently)

Before callers can leave voicemail messages you must activate your mailbox and record your greeting message. We would suggest something along the lines of

"You are through to the voicemail of . . . . I am sorry I am unable to take your call at the moment but please leave a message after the tone and I shall get back to you "

To Record Your Greeting Message

1. Dial the voicemail group number (usually 555)

2. Enter your password (default is 1234)

3. Keep pressing 3 to scroll to greeting messages

4. Press 8 to toggle between your two greeting messages

5. Press 0 to change the message and follow the instructions.

To leave voicemail just press 'Release' or hang up.

Responding to Voicemail

On a display phone you will see "You have messages" on the top line and "Display messages?" on the bottom line. Press tick twice to go to voicemail and then enter your password.

On Siemens 'Entry' phone or display phones with a 'voicemail' button, just press this button and enter password when asked.

On ordinary analogue phones you will get broken dial tone. Dial the voicemail group number (usually 555) and enter password.

In all cases you will then be able to listen to your messages.

To delete a message press 0. It will ask you to confirm by pressing 0 again.

Since you neglected to specify the model of your Uniden DECT 6.0 system I can only suggest you select it from the list beginning here to download a copy of the manual.

To record your own personal greetting just do the following:
1. press and hold greeting.
you will hear a "Record Greeting" and confirmation Tone
2. Record your greeting. The counter will count down from 30 to 1 second so you have a maximum of 30 seconds.
3. When you are finished with saying your greetting, press "greeting" or "play/stop" to stop recording, so your callers don't have to wait forever until they hear the beep so they can leave u a message.

That's it. Pretty Easy. You could also do either of there choices:

1. Hitting greeting also allows you to switch between preset greating or your personnal greeting.

Step 1 Lift the handset for your telephone and listen for the dial tone. Dial the access code you were given by Verizon when you signed up for residential telephone service. Dialing the access code will call the voicemail system. If you do not have an access code, you will need to call Verizon Customer Service (see link in Resources).

Step 2 Identify the telephone number you are setting up voicemail services for. If you are calling from that telephone number, enter the temporary passcode and then press "#." The temporary passcode is the last 4 digits of your residential telephone number. If you are calling from a different phone, press "*" when the system greeting starts to play, then enter the 10-digit telephone number when prompted. After this, you will be asked to input the temporary passcode.

Step 3 Choose a new passcode. The passcode must be from 4 to 8 digits in length. It should be easy for you to remember, but difficult for others to guess. Do not use easy to guess numbers, such as 1234 or 1111. Also do not re-enter the same temporary passcode, since it will be easy for anyone to guess.

Step 4 Record your name. Simply say your name, without a long complicated message. This recording is used by the voicemail system to identify you whenever you forward a message to another user. It is not used as the standard greeting when a caller is directed to your voicemail to leave a message.

Step 5 Record or change your personal greeting. This greeting is played any time someone reaches your voicemail box. Record a friendly greeting to announce that you are unavailable and will return all calls upon your return.
Decide if you want to set up a different mailbox for each family member. Verizon residential telephone service allows you to set up multiple mailboxes so that everyone can have his own private message center. Callers who reach voicemail will be prompted to press "1" to leave a message for one person, press "2" for the next person, and so on.

Step 6 Hang up the telephone. When you have finished setting up the voicemail system on your Verizon residential phone line, hang up the phone to end the call and exit the voicemail system.

On page 42 or so of your manual, there is a Greeting Only option MENU 0 6 2, where you can adjust the message length or set the G.O. option.

Carl

Under greeting table 1 set your greeting attendant assignment as 100,that should send the caller to mbox 100 if they press 0 or make no selection at all

Greeting message
When the unit answers a call, callers
are greeted by a greeting message. You
can record your own greeting message
or use a prerecorded greeting
message.
Recording your greeting
message
You can record your own greeting
message (max. 2 minutes and 30
seconds). If you do not record a
greeting message, a prerecorded
greeting message is used.
1 {MENU}
2 {V}/{^}: “Answering device” i
{OK}
3 {V}/{^}: “Record greeting” i
{OK}
4 After the handset beeps, speak
clearly about 20 cm (8 inches) away
from the microphone.
5 To stop recording, press {OK}.
6 {OFF}
Using a prerecorded greeting
message
If you erase or do not record your own
greeting message, the unit plays a
prerecorded greeting message for
callers and ask them to leave
messages.

Try here for your answer.
http://www.sundance-communications.com/forum/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/forum/f/9.html

this way will take awhile, but this is the only way i know how to record a personal greetong so far:

• on page 10 of the manual, it tells you to press and hold the 1/E key.

• This will automatically connect you to your voice mail.

• after listening to your messages or no messages, the robot lady says, "main menu."

• after hearing this, pay close attention because she asks if you would like to be taken to "personal options" (press 4)

• she will then ask if you would like to be taken to "greetings or recorded name" (press 3)

• she will then ask if you want "to change [your] personal greeting" (press 1)

• then she asks 3 options of what you can do (ie her telling people your number, then telling them to leave messages; you saying your name, then her telling people to leave messages; or what you asked about: recording your own greeting).

• To record your "personal greeting," press 3

• then she gives you directions for this, etc.

hope this helps and that it is the same for your phone... i have a propel A767... it took me a long time to figure this out, so you are not alone :D