Accessing of unified messaging system user data via a standard e-mail client

A method of accessing a user's home page information in a messaging system comprising:

• in response to an e-mail client reading a folder of a user's mailbox of the messaging system, which folder an e-mail server of the messaging system associates with a Web messaging application of the messaging system, the e-mail server obtaining home page information of the user from the Web messaging application and providing the obtained home page information to the client in a form of at least one e-mail message;
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• in response to an e-mail client writing an e-mail message containing home page information to the folder, the e-mail server retrieving the contained home page information from the written e-mail message and providing the retrieved home page information as the user's home page information to the Web messaging application.

A method of accessing a user's personal greeting in a messaging system comprising:

• in response to an e-mail client reading a folder of a user's mailbox of the messaging system, which folder an e-mail server of the messaging system associates with a voice messaging application of the messaging system, the e-mail server obtaining a personal greeting of the user from the voice messaging application and providing the obtained personal greeting to the client in a form of an e-mail message;
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• in response to an e-mail client writing an e-mail message containing a personal greeting to the folder, the e-mail server retrieving the contained personal greeting from the written e-mail message and providing the retrieved personal greeting as the user's personal greeting to the voice-messaging application.

A method of designating a fax machine to a messaging system comprising:

• in response to an e-mail client writing an e-mail message containing a fax to one of a plurality of folders of a user's mailbox of the messaging system, each of which folders an e-mail server of the messaging system associates with a different fax machine, the e-mail server causing a fax messaging application of the messaging system to send the fax to the fax machine associated with the one folder.

A method of designating a fax machine to a messaging system comprising:

• in response to an e-mail client reading a folder of a user's mailbox of the messaging system, which folder an e-mail server of the messaging system associates with a fax machine, the e-mail server obtaining any faxes that are enqueued for the user for printing at the fax machine from a fax messaging application of the messaging system and providing the obtained faxes to the client in an e-mail message;
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• in response to an e-mail client writing an e-mail message containing a fax to the folder, the e-mail server retrieving the contained fax from the written e-mail message and causing the fax messaging application to send the retrieved fax for printing to the associated fax machine.