Personalize your cell phone voice mail using YouMail

Posted on October 6, 2007 at 11:28 am

YouMail is a cool free service that takes your normal voicemail and adds a bunch of jazzy features to it, like the ability to record different greetings for different callers and the ability to receive voicemails via email. YouMail is geared towards everybody including Professionals, families, sales people, travelers, students and even small businesses.

YouMail is completely free (which is cool) and works by having the calls that you don’t answer forwarded to YouMail instead of your current carrier. The only cost that you might have to incur is if you’re not on a nationwide plan or you don’t have a text messaging plan. In order to use YouMail, you have to call a long distance number, so that’s something you should be aware of.

Also YouMail will notify you via a text message whenever you get a new voicemail, so if you have to pay for incoming text messages, you might want to disable this feature. You can instead receive notifications of new emails via email. You can check your voicemails by phone or via the web and you can quickly share your voicemail’s with friends and family. You can even post a voicemail to your FaceBook or MySpace page!

The biggest selling point of YouMail is the fact that you can setup different greetings for different people. Personalized greetings mean you can have a crazy message whenever your friend calls and a professional one whenever the boss calls! Pretty nifty. Or if you have famly who lives overseas or speaks another language, you can leave them a message in your mother tongue.

It’s also very useful for people who travel outside of the country. You can check your voicemail via the Internet and avoid roaming charges. You can also reply to callers with an email. You can also download voicemails to your computer as MP3’s.

The other really nice feature of YouMail is DitchMail, which lets you “ditch” callers that you don’t want calling you anymore by playing back a message and then hanging up on them. You can choose from pre-recorded messages such as “This number has been disconnected, please try again”.

Overall a very nice service that’s free and that makes it very easy to switch back to your normal voicemail if you don’t like it. All of the messages in your old mailbox will be untouched! Cool!