Re-review: YouMail really does manage voice mail like e-mail

Product originally reviewed December 6, 2007.

I'll come right out and say it. The biggest problem with my original experience with YouMail may have been my own human error.

In my original review of the voice mail system that lets you manage voice messages online, I said YouMail had a lot of potential, but wasn't delivering on its promise of catching my voice mail messages. It could be that I skipped a beat, and that before entering YouMail's phone number into the Motorola RAZR V3 handset, I failed to punch in the star (*) key. Or, offers YouMail's PR representative, Derek Brookmeyer, I may have actually done this and the signal cut out, in which case YouMail would not have completed my voice mail forwarding and Verizon would not have warned me the action was unsuccessful.

So now, the complete review. It turns out that once you've got YouMail properly set up, it works quite well and provides a well-rounded feature set, plus one controversial capability. (I call it creepy. Keep reading.)...



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