Allowed Address Formats - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

firstinitial lastname@internet_domain_name
Advantages
Addresses are intuitive and easy to remember.
Addresses do not change as users are moved.
Disadvantages
When you first enable this address format, you might have duplicate first initial and last names
in your GroupWise system. However, in the future, ConsoleOne prevents you from creating
users with the same first initials and last names within the same Internet domain name. The
same first initial and last name combination can be used in different Internet domains without
problem
The probability of conflicts increases when using first initials instead of complete first names.

45.1.5 Allowed Address Formats

The preferred Internet domain and preferred address format apply to user addresses as displayed in
the GroupWise Address Book or in the address displayed on sent messages.
The allowed address formats, on the other hand, determine which address formats are accepted by
the Internet Agent. There are five possible allowed formats:
userID.post_office@internet_domain_name
userID@internet_domain_name
firstname.lastname@internet_domain_name
lastname.firstname@internet_domain_name
firstinital lastname@internet_domain_name
If you select all five formats, the Internet Agent accepts messages addressed to users in any of the
formats. For example, John Peterson would receive messages sent using any of the following
addresses:
jpeterson.research@novell.com
jpeterson@novell.com
john.peterson@novell.com
peterson.john@novell.com
jpeterson@novell.com
You must designate the allowed address formats to be used as the default formats for your
GroupWise system. The system's allowed address formats are applied to all users in your
GroupWise system. However, you can override the system's allowed address formats at the domain,
post office, and user/resource level.
For example, assume you have two John Petersons with userIDs of jpeterson and japeterson. The
userID.post_office and userID address formats do not cause message delivery problems, but the
firstname.lastname, lastname.firstname, and firstinitial lastname address formats do. To overcome
this problem, you could disallow the three problem formats for these users at the user level.
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