Internet Addressing

By default, GroupWise uses a proprietary address format consisting of a user's ID, post office, and domain (userID.post_office.domain). However, if you have the GroupWise Internet Agent installed (see Internet Agent), GroupWise also supports native Internet-style addressing consisting of a username and Internet domain name (username@Internet_domain_name).

You use the Internet Addressing feature to do the following:

• Define Internet domain names for your GroupWise system. You can have one or more domain names (for example, novell.com, gw.novell.com, and support.novell.com).
• Set up the default Internet address format for use when displaying user addresses in the GroupWise Address Book and sent messages. There are six formats that can be assigned at the system, domain, post office, or user level. In addition, there is a free-form format that can be used at the user level.
• Designate the address formats that can be used to address messages to your GroupWise users. There are five possible formats to choose from. You can allow all five formats, or only one.
• Specify the default Internet Agent to be used when sending messages from your GroupWise system to the Internet. This becomes your system's default Internet Agent for outbound messages sent from all domains; however, if you have multiple Internet Agents, you can override this setting by assigning Internet Agents at the domain level.

For detailed information about Internet addressing, see Internet-Style Addressing.