Internet Addressing Overrides


After Internet addressing has been enabled, customizations or overrides can be used to increase the flexibility of Internet addressing within the GroupWise system. Overrides can be enabled on the Internet Addressing tab on the detail screen of domains, post offices, and users.

Internet Domain Name Overrides

Overrides at a domain, post office, or user level can be used to specify a certain Internet domain name. For example, the sales division in the Sales GroupWise domain might want to be known as sales.worldwidewidgets.com rather than just worldwidewidgets.com. An override can be set on each domain to allow all members of each domain to have the specific Internet domain name value. If the members of a post office wanted a specific Internet domain name for their post office, an override could be done for that post office through the Internet Addressing tab on that post office object's properties window.

Note

All Internet domains that your organization wants to use need to be defined in two places. First, they should be defined in the Internet Domain Names section under Tools, GroupWise System Operations, Internet Addressing. Second, your Internet domains should be defined, for the sake of the GWIA, in the Foreign ID field or the FRGNAMES.CFG file explained earlier in this chapter. Having all Internet domains defined in the Foreign ID field on the GWIA is not critical. If the /dia switch in the GWIA.CFG file is not being used, the GWIA reads all IDOMAINs from the domain database to find out its identity, if you will. However, if the /dia switch is active on the GWIA, it will not read the domain to get the list of known IDOMAINs, and will strictly use the foreign ID names for building reply-to addresses, both inbound and outbound. It will not honor the overrides at the domain, post office, or user level when the /dia switch is in use on the GWIA.


The last type of Internet domain name override happens at the user level. If a user or group of users wants a different Internet domain name than the one being used at the system, domain, or even post office level, you would use the Internet Addressing tab on those users' user objects.

Preferred Addressing Format Overrides

Domains, post office, and user objects can also have overrides to specify a preferred addressing format. This means that while the system default for preferred addressing format can be set to userid@Internet domain name, any domain, post office, or user can have one of the other available preferred addressing formats (such as first.last@Internet domain name).

Tip

Even though you select a preferred addressing format, users can receive mail at any of the allowed addressing formats defined at the system, domain, post office, or user level. This preferred format just determines what the reply-to address format is. Hence, Billy Bob could receive mail at billy.bob@wwwidgets.com, bbob@wwwidgets.com, bob.billy@wwwidgets.com, and so on if these formats have not been disabled at the system, domain, post office, or user level. If you want to prevent Billy Bob from receiving mail using the other formats, you can simply disable a particular format at the system, domain, post office, or user level.


You can also override the actual Internet email address at the user level. You can use a free-form type of address that allows you to type the user's email IDs that they want to use. This is actually the solution we can use to correct the problem with spaces or upper ASCII characters in first-name or last-name eDirectory fields. Let's have an example that is a bit like one you've seen earlier: The first name of this user is Remon and the last name is de Korte. With the Internet addressing at first.last@Internet domain name, that would become Remon.de Korte@Internet domain name. This example shows two problems: spaces and upper ASCII characters, which are in general not acceptable in Internet email addresses.

The override feature is designed to correct these issues without the need to use gateway aliases on the GWIA. You can simply select the Override option and add the desired name in the Override field, as shown in Figure 16.7.

Figure 16.7. The Internet Addressing property page for the user allows you to override the user's Internet address


So if you have been using Gateway Alias records, you can now replace these with the free-form Internet address override at the user level. Remember that the user's post office must be version 6.5 or 7 for you to see the Override option in ConsoleOne.

Default GroupWise Internet Agent Overrides

On a large GroupWise system, there might be more than one point at which the system connects to the Internet. Novell's corporate network is an example of this point. They maintain permanent Internet connections for their corporate offices in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Provo, Utah, as well as in many of their regional offices.

In these cases, it makes sense to allow regional domains to route Internet mail through a local GWIA, instead of forcing all messages through the default GWIA. Domain objects have an Internet agent for outbound SMTP/MIME messages override, allowing the system administrator to select from any GWIA defined on the system. Figure 16.8 shows the property page of a GroupWise domain object that allows you to override the system-level Internet addressing format.

Figure 16.8. The Internet Addressing property page allows you to override the system-wide Internet addressing format


If you have defined a default routing domain at the system level, you cannot override the Alternate Internet Agent for Outbound SMTP/MIME Messages option.



NOVELL GroupWise 7 Administrator Solutions Guide
Novell GroupWise 7 Administrator Solutions Guide
ISBN: 0672327880
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 320
Authors: Tay Kratzer

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