Creating External Users; Facilitating Addressing Through Groupwise Gateways - Novell GROUPWISE 7 - SYSTEM Manual

6.7.4 Creating External Users

By creating external users, you add them to the GroupWise Address Book for easy selection by
GroupWise users when addressing messages.
To add an Internet user to a post office:
1 In ConsoleOne, right-click the post office that represents the user's Internet host, then click
2 In the User Name field, specify the exact user portion of the user's Internet address. If the
3 Click OK to create the external user.
4 Provide personal information about the external user:
If you have only a few users on some Internet hosts, you can create a single external post office for
these users, then define their Internet domain names on the Identification pages of the External User
objects instead of on the External Post Office object.
6.8 Facilitating Addressing through GroupWise
Gateways
Current GroupWise Gateways, such as the GroupWise Gateway 2.0 for Microsoft* Exchange and
the GroupWise Gateway 3.0 for Lotus Notes*, provide convenient addressing features for users on
both sides of the gateway. Earlier GroupWise gateways made use of addressing rules to simplify
addressing through the gateway. Setting up addressing rules is not necessary for current GroupWise
gateways.
Addressing rules let you search for text in an address and replace it with other text. Addressing rules
are created at the system level and enabled by domain. Gateway-specific instructions are available
on the
gwgateways). The following sections provide some general instructions for setting up addressing
rules:
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New > External User.
address is jsmith@novell.com, the portion you would specify is jsmith.
4a Right-click the new External User object.
4b Fill in the desired fields on the Identification page.
Because the user is displayed in the GroupWise Address Book, you might want to define
the user's first name and last name. This is especially important if the allowed address
formats for the Internet host include first name and last name information.
4c Click OK to save the user's personal information.
GroupWise Gateways documentation page (http://www.novell.com/documentation/
Section 6.8.1, "Creating an Addressing Rule," on page 101
Section 6.8.2, "Enabling an Addressing Rule," on page 102