Changing IMail User Properties
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Use the User Properties to change a user's settings, such as: user password, user ID, maximum mailbox size and maximum number of mailbox messages, add user to Collaboration, and change other user mailbox properties.
- or. The current domain name used to address mail to the users on the mail domain is displayed. For example, company.com is the domain name in the address john.public@company.com.
- Enter a unique user ID (user name) for the email account. User IDs are limited in length to 1 to 30 characters and must be created from alphanumeric characters. The User ID cannot include spaces and must be a unique name within the domain you are adding the user to.
- Enter the user's First Name and Last Name.
- Enter an email address that you want to have IMail Server automatically use as your Reply To mail address. You can leave this text box empty to let recipients of this user's messages reply to the User ID you entered. You can also enter an email address that omits the domain name, if you are sure the rest of the address is a fully qualified domain name. For example, if the complete email address is Stephanie@mail.ipswitch.com, you can enter Stephanie@ipswitch.com.
- Enter an email address that you want to have IMail Server automatically forward a user's mail to. You can also configure IMail Server to send notifications via pager, beeper, and email when a user receives mail.
(0 is default value) Enter the default maximum size (in bytes, KB, MB, or GB) of all the mailboxes in each user account. If the user's Maximum Mailbox Size is zero, the defaults for the email domain are applied to the user. If the domain's default is also zero, the Maximum Mailbox Size for the user is unlimited. If a new message will cause the total size of all mailboxes in a user's account to exceed the Maximum Mailbox Size value, the mail is returned to the sender.
When the Maximum Mailbox Size value is non-zero, it will override the email domain's default settings. In this case, the 0 value is no longer unlimited for the domain default settings.
(0 is default value) Enter the default maximum number of messages allowed in each user account. If the user's Maximum Mailbox Messages is zero, the defaults for the email domain are applied to the user. If the domain's default is also zero, the Maximum Mailbox Messages for the user is unlimited.
When the Maximum Mailbox Messages value is non- zero, it will override the email domain's default settings. In this case, the 0 value is no longer unlimited for the domain default settings.
If the option is set to 5, and the user's main mailbox already has five messages stored, then the next message sent to the user's main mailbox is bounced. However, if the next message is sent to a sub-mailbox instead, the message is delivered as long as there are less than five messages currently stored in the sub-mailbox.
- (selected by default). Select to let the user change his/her password in Web Messaging.
- (selected by default). Select to let the user use the email account remotely through POP3 or IMAP4. You can clear this option to disable the account without changing the user's password or removing him/her from the domain.
- (selected by default). Select to make the user's LDAP information available in the LDAP database.
Clearing the check box permanently deletes the user's information from the LDAP database and prevents distribution of user information via the IMail LDAP service A service is a formal Windows NT/2000 term for an executable object installed in a registry database maintained by NT/2000's Service Control Manager. A service can be automatically started when the system is booted and continues to run until the system is shut down. It will continue to run even when no one is logged on the system. In IMail, you can also stop, start, and restart services separately from their respective administrative pages. . here is currently no method available to hide information within an OpenLDAP database, except to use this option to clear user information. If you want to show LDAP information for this user after clearing this option, you must add the LDAP information back into the user information.
- (selected by default). Select to let the user modify his/her LDAP attributes (name, address, organization, etc.).
- (Only present if Ipswitch Instant Messaging is installed). Select to let the user have access to Instant Messaging. Clear the check box to disable the user's access.
- Select to let a user access his/her IMail Web Messaging client.
- Select to let a user access IMail Web Calendaring (if it is installed).
- (cleared by default). Select to let a user add, modify, or delete any list server mailing list on the mail domain(s) he or she has list admin permissions to.
- (cleared by default). Select to let a user add, modify, or delete users and aliases (except program aliases) on the mail domain (host) he or she has domain administrator permission to.
- (cleared by default). Select to let a user have full administration capabilities with all IMail features and options. System admins have Domain admin and List admin permissions.
Related Tasks
- Click to open the Change Password page. Enter a new password, then click
- Enter a user password. Passwords are limited in length to 3 to 30 alphanumeric characters and cannot include asterisks.
- Enter the user password a second time to confirm the password.
- Click to open the Rename UserID page. Enter a in the box, then click .
- Click to open the page. Enter the following information, then click .
- Enter the user's account name in the text box.
- Enter the user's Email account in the text box.
- Enter the name with which the user logs into the system.
- Enter a password for this user into the text box.
- Re-enter the password for this user into the text box.
After a user is added to Collaboration via the , this link changes to However, if the new collaboration user's current email address is not used in the text box, the user is not recognized as the same user and the for the user.