Nickname Topics

Nickname List

A nickname is an additional address for a GroupWise object (User, Group, or Resource) that facilitates the object’s availability in the GroupWise Address Book. Nicknames are manually established on the Nickname tab of User, Group, and Resource objects. They can also be generated when you rename an object or move an object to a different post office.

Nicknames List: Lists all nicknames in your GroupWise system. Click the name of a nickname to edit its properties. Click Customize Columns Options icon to add columns to the list.

Delete: Select one or more nicknames, then click Delete to remove them from the list.

Export: Click Export to generate a comma-separated values (CSV) file from the list. Use Customize Columns Options icon to add and order the columns as needed before you generate the CSV file.

Search: Use the Search field to filter the object list and to query on any object attribute value.

See also:
Nicknames in the GroupWise Administration Guide.

New Nickname

Nickname: Specify a unique name for the new nickname. Do not use invalid characters. You cannot change the name after the Nickname object has been created.

First Name: If you are creating the nickname for a user, specify the user's first name or given name.

Last Name: If you are creating the nickname for a user, specify the user's last name or surname.

Post Office: Select the post office that you want to own the nickname.

This can be any post office in your GroupWise system; it does not need to be the same post office that owns the object that the nickname represents.

Visibility: Select the visibility level for this nickname.

The nickname’s visibility determines where the nickname is available (system, domain, or post office). However, nicknames are not displayed in the GroupWise Address Book unless you filter for them. In order to address a message to a nickname, a user must specify the nickname address, and the nickname must be available in the user’s post office.

Expiration Date: To automatically remove a nickname after a specific date, select Expiration Date, then specify the date.

See also the following in the GroupWise Administration Guide:
Nicknames
Controlling Object Visibility
Expiring a GroupWise Account

Nickname > General

Post Office: Displays the post office that owns the nickname.

Owning Object: Displays the GroupWise object (User, Group, or Resource) that the nickname represents.

Description: (Optional) Provide additional helpful information about the nickname.

Visibility: Select the visibility level for this nickname.

External Sync Override: If your GroupWise system links to and synchronizes with another GroupWise system, select the external synchronization policy for this nickname.

Synchronize According to Visibility: The nickname information is synchronized to external systems only if visibility is set to System.
Synchronize Regardless of Visibility: The nickname information is always synchronized to external systems regardless of the object visibility.
Don’t Synchronize Regardless of Visibility: The nickname information is not synchronized to external systems.

External synchronization is set up using System > External System Synchronization.

First Name: If you are creating the nickname for a user, specify the user's first name or given name.

Last Name: If you are creating the nickname for a user, specify the user's last name or surname.

Expiration Date: To automatically remove a nickname after a specific date, select Expiration Date, then specify the date.

See also the following in the GroupWise Administration Guide:
Nicknames
Controlling Object Visibility
Using an External Domain to Connect GroupWise Systems
Expiring a GroupWise Account

Nickname > Internet Addressing

The Internet Addressing tab on the Nickname object lets you override the system-level Internet addressing settings (System > Internet Addressing > Address Formats), the domain-level settings (Domain object > Internet Addressing), and the post-office level settings (Post Office object > Internet Addressing).

Select Override next to the Internet addressing option that you want to change, then select the setting for the nickname.

Allowed Address Formats

The GWIA can work with the following email address formats that are based on user-name information:

User Name@Internet domain name
Last Name.First Name@Internet domain name
First Name.Last Name@Internet domain name
First Initial Last Name@Internet domain name
User Name.Post Office@Internet domain name

The allowed address formats are supported for incoming messages and for POP3/IMAP4 logins. Messages can be delivered to recipients if any of the allowed formats have been used in the incoming email address.

Select the address formats that you want the GWIA to accept into your GroupWise system. If a message arrives with any other address format, the message is not delivered to the recipient, and the sender receives an undeliverable notification.

IMPORTANT:Because the allowed email address formats apply to POP3/IMAP4 logins, do not deselect User Name@Internet domain name if you have POP3/IMAP4 users. This will prevent them from logging in to their POP3/IMAP4 accounts with their GroupWise email addresses, and using a different login format will be inconvenient for them.

Preferred Address Format

The preferred address format is used for email addresses in the GroupWise Address Book and in the To field of outgoing messages. Recipients of messages from your GroupWise system reply to email addresses in the preferred address format.

Internet Domain Name

Select the default Internet domain name for this nickname’s email address.

For Incoming Mail, Recipients Are Known Exclusively by This Internet Domain Name: Accepts only email addressed to the selected Internet domain name, even if another valid Internet domain name is used. A valid Internet domain name is any domain name defined at the system level (System > Internet Addressing > Internet Domains).

For example, suppose that your system has two Internet domain names: example.com and gw.example.com. You select gw.example.com as the Internet domain name for this GroupWise domain and select this option. Joe Smith, a user in this domain with a user ID of jsmith, would receive messages addressed to jsmith@gw.example.com but not messages addressed to jsmith@example.com, even though example.com is a valid Internet domain name for your GroupWise system.

See also:
Managing Internet Domains, Addressing, and Access in the GroupWise Administration Guide.

Nickname Options

Breadcrumbs identify the context of the object.

Save: Edit the Nickname object properties as needed, then click Save to save your changes.

Close: Click Close to return to the Nicknames list.

Customize Tab Order: Click Customize Tab Order Options icon to reorganize the tabs on the properties page.

More > Delete: Deletes the nickname from the post office.

More > Replicate: Broadcasts current nickname information throughout your GroupWise system.

In general, replication of object information occurs automatically. However, because unavoidable events such as power outages and hardware failures can disrupt network connectivity, information in various GroupWise databases might become inconsistent.

The best way to perform replication is to be connected to the domain that owns the object that is inconsistent in your GroupWise system. The next best way to perform replication is to be connected to the primary domain. This is because the primary domain sends a request to the owning domain for the correct information, and then broadcasts the correct information to all secondary domains.

See also:
Replicating Database Information in the GroupWise Administration Guide.

Diagnostics > Information: Displays the Information window showing when the Nickname object was last updated.

Diagnostics > Display Object: Displays the Display Object window with object attributes and values for the Nickname object.