Caching Mode - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - TROUBLESHOOTING 3 Troubleshooting Manual

Stage
POA for Local
Post Office
POA for Local
Post Office
Recipient's
GroupWise Client
Recipient
Recipient's
GroupWise Client
POA for Local
Post Office
POA for Local
Post Office
Sender

1.2 Caching Mode

This message flow diagram illustrates how a GroupWise message travels from one user to another in
the local post office when the users are accessing their Caching mailboxes.
14 GroupWise 8 Troubleshooting 3: Message Flow and Directory Structure
Icon Description
The POA receives the message from the GroupWise client and performs
the following actions for the sender:
Adds the message to the message database (
assigned to the sender.
Creates a pointer in the sender's user database (
the message appears in the sender's mailbox as a sent item.
Places attachments larger than 2 KB in one of the
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pointers from the message to its attachments. (For database
efficiency, messages and distribution lists larger than 2 KB are also
handled as attachments.)
The POA also performs the following actions for the recipient:
Creates a pointer in each recipient's user database (
to the message in the message database (
message appears in the recipient's mailbox.
Updates the message in the message database (
a Delivered status for each recipient.
The POA communicates to the GroupWise client by way of TCP/IP that a
new message has arrived.
The Notify component of the recipient's GroupWise client notifies the
recipient that a new message has arrived.
Each recipient opens the message in the GroupWise client.
Each recipient's GroupWise client communicates the Opened status to
the POA by way of TCP/IP.
The POA receives the Opened status from the GroupWise client and
updates the message in the message database with the Opened status
for each recipient who opens the message.
The POA communicate the Opened status to the sender's GroupWise
client by way of TCP/IP.
When the sender checks the sent items in his or her mailbox in the
GroupWise client, the message displays a status of Delivered for each
recipient (and possibly Opened as well if the recipient has opened the
message).
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