YouMail, a mobile consumer voicemail service, has announced the availability of YouMail DropBox.

With YouMail DropBox, users who use a VoIP voicemail service featuring e-mail delivery can take advantage of YouMail’s Visual Voicemail Plus applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android (News - Alert) smart phones -- and also YouMail’s services that provide voicemail transcription.

Also, by using this latest offering, users can consolidate voicemails from their work or home voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) system and mobile phone. Company officials said in a release that this creates a universal voicemail service that can be accessed anywhere at anytime.

VoIP and private branch exchange (PBX (News - Alert)) users can activate DropBox by signing up for YouMail’s free mobile voicemail service after downloading the YouMail application from Apple’s App Store, BlackBerry AppWorld, or Android Market, or YouMail’s Web site.

Officials said that then users need to go the PBX or VoIP system’s configuration page and change the e-mail address from where voicemail alerts are currently sent tousers 10-digit YouMail account number.

And, once the email has been changed, YouMail will forward any necessary confirmation to the users primary e-mail account to verify the change of address and activate YouMail DropBox, said officials.

 

After the activation process is completed, other provider’s voicemails will appear in the YouMail inbox, integrated with mobile phone voicemail. Moreover, users will also have access to all of the key YouMail features such as access to voicemails through the mobile applications and Web site, voicemail sharing, automated spam filtering, and more.

 

“YouMail has been overwhelmed with requests from users wanting our service to work with their existing voicemail systems, primarily because of our powerful, easy-to-use handset applications and our near perfect voicemail transcriptions,” said Alex Quilici (News - Alert), CEO at YouMail, in the release.

He said that company has found an “effortless” way to make this possible, even when these systems do not provide the conditional call forwarding or accurate originally called number services on which most voicemail services rely.

Officials said that YouMail’s DropBox works with all major VoIP phone service providers including Vonage (News - Alert), GoogleVoice, Magicjack, OOMA, Packet 8, and eVoice.

Additionally, the service also works with PBX services that provide audio attachments in standard MP3 or WAV format, such as RingCentral, Phone.com, Adomo, Nortel, Cisco (News - Alert) and Avaya.