Create Virtual Roots
Virtual roots allow you to support limited visibility into the mailbox hierarchy, mailboxes are visible to the end user as a relative path, while administrators see the mailbox in an absolute or full path.
About this task
When a Mailbox Add service is invoked with a mailbox name, the mailbox name is appended to the virtual root mailbox associated with the user ID to obtain the absolute name of the mailbox to which the message should be added. The absolute path to the mailbox is never disclosed to the sender.
When a Mailbox Query service is invoked, only mailboxes that are under the virtual root of the user and for which the user has permissions can be searched.
This is useful for security reasons if you do not want to disclose the full path to a mailbox. It is also valuable for mailbox maintenance. If you change the organization of your mailbox, the virtual root does not change, so the change is transparent to the user.
A trading partner using the new FTP Server adapter must have a virtual root mailbox to have an FTP session.
To create a virtual root:
Procedure
- From the Deployment menu, select Mailboxes > Virtual Roots.
- In the Create section, click Go!
- Specify the User ID that you want to create the virtual
root for and click Next. You can type a partial user ID in the Filter by ID field and click the filter button for a filtered list.
- Specify the mailbox that you want to be the virtual root
of the User ID and click Next. You can type a partial mailbox name in the Filter by Name field and click the filter button for a filtered list.
- Click Finish.