Transitioning From Smtp Gateway Aliases To Internet Addressing - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

3 To override one of the options, select the Override box, then select the option you prefer for
this user or resource.
At the user and resource level, the preferred address format can be completely overridden by
explicitly defining the user portion of the address format (user@Internet domain name). The
user portion can include any RFC-compliant characters (no spaces, commas, and so forth).
For example, if you have selected First Name.Last Name@Internet domain name as your
system's preferred address format and you have two John Petersons, each on a different post
office in your system, you would end up two users having the same address
(John.Peterson@novell.com). You could use this field to differentiate them by including their
middle initials in their address (John.S.Peterson@novell.com and
John.A.Peterson@novell.com).
You can use the same e-mail ID for more than one user in your GroupWise system, if each user
is in a different Internet domain. Rather than requiring that each e-mail ID be unique in your
GroupWise system, each combination of e-mail ID and Internet domain must be unique. This
provides more flexibility for handling the situation where two people have the same name.
If you need additional information about any of the fields, click Help.
4 Click OK to save the changes.
If you changed the preferred address format for a user, you are prompted to update the user's
Internet e-mail address (General > Identification > E-Mail Address). The Internet e-mail
address is the address returned in response to LDAP queries to eDirectory. We recommend that
you allow this update.
45.3 Transitioning from SMTP Gateway Aliases
to Internet Addressing
For those who have been using SMTP gateway aliases to handle e-mail addresses that do not fit the
default format expected by the Internet Agent or to customize users' Internet addresses, the Gateway
Alias Migration utility can convert the usernames in those gateway aliases into preferred e-mail IDs.
The Preferred E-Mail ID feature was first introduced in GroupWise 6.5 and is the suggested method
Configuring Internet Addressing 727