Target Skills:

Ability to add messaging user accounts.

 
 

More Info:

About Users and Groups for Messaging (Admin Guide)
     

Adding User Accounts

Before you can really test out the configuration of the messaging server, you need to set up some messaging accounts to and from which you can send and receive messages.

The most important thing to remember is that all account information (and server configuration) is stored in the Directory Server.  None of it is stored in the messaging server itself.

So, adding user messaging accounts involves going to the Directory Server, adding users, and activating their messaging accounts.

There are basically 2 ways of adding users to the Directory with the Console.

1. Click on Users and Groups on the main Netscape Console screen.
2. Open up the Directory Server itself, and add them there.
Opening up the Directory Server itself and adding users takes more steps, but it gives you more precise control of where the users are being placed in the directory tree structure.  This is especially true if you have identically named organizational units in different branches of your tree, since the Users and Groups method will not visually distinguish them from each other.

We open up the Directory Server itself and add messaging users in the exercise that follows.
 

     

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