Creating A New Post Office; Understanding The Purpose Of Post Offices - Novell GROUPWISE 7 - POST OFFICES Manual

Creating a New Post Office

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As your GroupWise system grows, you typically need to add new post offices.
Section 11.1, "Understanding the Purpose of Post Offices," on page 155
Section 11.2, "Planning a New Post Office," on page 156
Section 11.3, "Setting Up the New Post Office," on page 167
Section 11.4, "What's Next," on page 171
Section 11.5, "Post Office Worksheet," on page 171
IMPORTANT: If you are creating a new post office in a clustered GroupWise system, see the
GroupWise 7 Interoperability Guide

11.1 Understanding the Purpose of Post Offices

The post office serves as an administrative unit for a group of users and is used for addressing
messages. Each GroupWise user has an address that consists of a user ID, the user's post office
name, the GroupWise domain name, and, optionally, an Internet domain name.
The following diagram illustrates the logical organization of a GroupWise domain with multiple
post offices. The two post offices belong to the domain. All of the objects under each post office
belong to that post office.
GroupWise Domain with Multiple Post Offices
Figure 11-1
Post
Office
Agent
Post Office
GroupWise GroupWise
Resources Users
As illustrated above, each post office must have at least one Post Office Agent (POA) running for it.
The POA delivers messages to users' mailboxes and performs a variety of post office and mailbox
maintenance activities.
When you add a new post office, you must link it to a domain. The link defines how messages travel
between the post office and its domain. Links are discussed in detail in
Links between Domains and Post Offices," on page
before you create the post office:
Domain
Post Office
GroupWise GroupWise
Distribution Resources
Lists
137.
Message
Transfer
Agent
Post
Office
Agent
GroupWise GroupWise
Users Distribution
Lists
Chapter 10, "Managing the
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