A system and/or methodology that unifies a telephonic communication
component and/or system with a data (e.g., messaging) server component
and/or system. The system can facilitate telephonically accessing rich
information in the server (e.g., messaging server). This rich information
can include email content, calendar content, contacts information, or the
like. Moreover, with access to an application programming interface, the
invention can add functionality to initiate email communications as well
as to accept or cancel meetings. Furthermore, the invention can
synchronize messages of disparate formats. By way of example a user can
set an "Out of Office" (OOF) status on both an email systems and
telephone voicemail system from one location in one action. In another
aspect, it will be appreciated that any message or data component can be
analyzed, transformed, matched and/or communicated from one system to
another (e.g., server to telephone) in accordance with the subject
invention.