Interesting. Using Reset VM Password does work for initial setup from a landline, but prior to using Reset your phone number is accepted as the default password but results in the message "You must set up voicemail by calling from your own phone. Goodbye."
Further: using the Reset VM Password function allows you to access your voicemail one time only with the temporary password. You are asked to set a new password, and then you can listen to messages, delete them, change greeting, whatever you want. But the next time you call back and enter your new password, you are again told: "You must set up voicemail by calling from your own phone. Goodbye.". You can do the reset cycle again, and it still works. But PM really, really wants you to call and use cell minutes at least once to set up your voicemail, unnecessary as that clearly is.
