User Properties
How to get hereUse 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.
- Domain Name (Official Host Name or OHN ). 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.
- User ID. 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.
- Full name. Enter the user's First Name and Last Name.
- Reply To Address. 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.
- Forwarding Address. 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.
- Maximum Mailbox Size. (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.The following will occur when a users mailbox is over the Max Mailbox Size:
- All new incoming mail will no longer be received, they will get bounced.
- New messages can still be sent.
- Other users sending messages to a users full mailbox will receive a postmaster message stating the user's mailbox is exceeding the allowed limit.
- When users mailbox is below the Max Mailbox Size, it will begin receiving mail again.
- Maximum Mailbox Messages. (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.
Note: If the Max Mailbox Messages 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.
- Encoding. Default message encoding used for sending messages. Default setting is Unicode (UTF-8).
- Unicode (UTF-8). Choose this character set for multi-language mail. In IMail, this includes English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.
- English (US-ASCII). For composing email for English-speaking readers, based on the English alphabet.
- Western European (ISO-8859-15). For composing email in French, Italian, German, or Spanish.
- Chinese Traditional (BIG5). For composing email in traditional Chinese.
- Chinese Simplified (GB2312). For composing email in simplified Chinese.
- Japanese (ISO-2022-JP). For composing email in Japanese.
- Allow Password Change (selected by default). Select to let the user change his/her password in Web Messaging.
- Grant Account Access (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.
- Access Information Services (selected by default). Select to make the user's LDAP information available in the LDAP database.
Caution: Clearing the Access Information Services check box permanently deletes the user's information from the LDAP database and prevents distribution of user information via the IMail LDAP service. There 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.
- Access LDAP Attributes (selected by default). Select to let the user modify his/her LDAP attributes (name, address, organization, etc.).
- Allow Web Calendaring. Select to let a user access IMail Web Calendaring (if it is installed).
- Allow Use of Ipswitch Instant Messaging. (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.
- Allow Web Access. Select to let a user access his/her IMail Web Messaging client.
- Account Suspended. Automatically becomes enabled if a user's web access becomes suspended. To re-enable web access web access for the user Account Suspended must be manually unchecked.
Note:This feature is controlled on a per domain basis in Domain Properties under User Login Settings.
- List Administrator Permissions (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.
- Domain Administrator Permissions (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.
- System Administrator Permissions (cleared by default). Select to let a user have full administration capabilities with all IMail features and options. System Administrators have Domain Administrator and List Administrator permissions.
Related Tasks
Specify Corresponding Collaboration User
Note: After a user is added to Collaboration via the Add User to Collaboration link, this link changes to Grant Access to a Public Folder. However, if the new collaboration user's current email address is not used in the Account Email text box, the user is not recognized as the same user and the Add User to Collaboration link continues to display for the user.
- Save. Click to save changes.
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