Target Skills:

Ability to manage messaging users and groups.

 
 

More info:

Managing Users and Groups  (Admin Guide)

 
     

Managing Users and Groups

We've already covered how to add users in the Adding User Accounts module.  You add messaging lists or groups similarly.  Remember, all account information is set and stored in the Directory Server. 
 

Accessing Mail Users

To modify an existing mail account or to add mail capabilities to an existing user, you access the appropriate user in the user directory and then add or modify that user's mail-account attributes. 

Accessing Mailing Lists 

Because Messaging Server mailing lists are stored as attributes of group entries in an your enterprise's central LDAP user directory, managing mailing lists means accessing and modifying directory groups.

To create a new mailing list, you create a new group in the directory. To modify an existing mailing list, or to add a mailing-list capabilities to an existing group, you access the appropriate group in the user directory and then add or modify it's mail-account attributes. 

Specifying General List Information 

Before mail can be delivered successfully to your mailing list, you must specify its mail-addressing information. This consists of the primary address for the group, any alternate addresses you want to accept as aliases to the primary address, plus optional descriptive information about the purpose, attributes, members, and so on, for the mailing list. This description is for informational purposes only; it is not used by the Messaging Server. 

Specifying List Members 

You can add members to your mailing list by using one or both of the following methods:

1. You can explicitly add each member to the mailing list.

2. You can define dynamic criteria to be applied to the user directory as a filter for determining group 
     membership.

Dynamic criteria consist of LDAP Search URLs that are used as filters in searching the user directory for determining membership. This mechanism is dynamic in that, when a message arrives for the group, the individuals that receive it are determined by a directory search rather than by consulting a static list of names. You can thus create and maintain very large or complex groups without having to track each member explicitly. 

Defining Message-Posting Restrictions 

You can impose various kinds of restrictions on messages sent to a mailing list. You can define the set of people allowed to post messages, you can require authentication of senders, you can restrict where posted messages can come from, and you can limit the size of a posted message. Messages that violate the restrictions are rejected. 

Defining Message-Rejection Actions 

You can specify that Messaging Server automatically execute certain notification actions when messages to your mailing list are rejected because they violate the list's message-posting restrictions.  This feature lets you to define the action to be executed upon rejection of a mail message, and to specify group moderators. The actions that the server can take include notification to a moderator and reply to the sender (with or without appending the original message).
 

In the exercise on the pages that follow, you will create a messaging list and test it out.
 
 

     

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