In its basic form, voicemail works like your answering machine on the traditional phone. It answers your call when you are not around to take it and records the message which you can listen to later.

This is a standard feature with all VoIP service providers but some providers offer you what is called enhanced voicemail with many features.

Interesting Features of Enhanced Email:
You can access these messages by any phone from anywhere. This is highly useful when you are traveling and want to check for any messages that may have come to your internet phone during your absence.

You can also access these messages by any computer with an broadband internet connection as you do your regular email.

Another thing about this feature is that you can get voicemail messages as email attachments which you can hear by your computer or a media player or forward them to someone else. You can save these messages for future use or as a remembrance of a dear relative for years to come.