How can I keep my voicemail but allow no-one to leave a message

[Anonymous]

I run a business and although I have a voicemail and recorded message . When I am closed for a peroid of time, I want customers to hear my message but not let them leave a message!

I do not want to come back to 200 messages. I just want to let people know I am unavailable until a set date?

Thanks

[MI5]

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@perksie wrote:

Seems it is up to 30 messages each up to 2 minutes long according to: http://www.howtofixanything.co.uk/howto-o2voicemail.html

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Could be a long job then 

[perksie]

There's probably an app that will do something like what is wanted and the phone could be set to silent when needed, I can't see any other way.

[Anonymous]

Does this particular phone allow apps? I thought Doro was a basic phone

[perksie]

In that case no I don't think so.

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[viridis]

Thinking about this because I'm bored and so on.
Found a solution.
Get a payg sim
Fill up the voicemail of new payg sim
after Recording new greeting.
Remove new sim
Go into settings of your main phone (with normal sim in) and go to call divert settings.
Go to "when turned off" or similar and set the divert number as the new payg sim number.
Now each time you turn the phone off it will divert to the payg sim, the new voicemail will pick it up but not allow a message to be left and therefore your message greeting should relay that.

Job done, thankyou, goodnight.

[viridis]

Might be called forwarding and not divert in settings.
Forward when unreachable = new sim number.

[cyrillicguy]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I run a business and although I have a voicemail and recorded message . When I am closed for a peroid of time, I want customers to hear my message but not let them leave a message!

I do not want to come back to 200 messages. I just want to let people know I am unavailable until a set date?

Thanks

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Renting a virtual uk number from tollfreeforwarding.com and forwarding your calls to it could do the trick. I think you can upload an audiofile with your own pre-recorded message, and they allow to set quite complex rules on your so called virtual IVR. They also do a free month trial. Haven't been using them for a long time, but could be worth trying.