Overview - Mailbox types

This section covers the various mailboxes and their properties

 

There are 8 mailbox types within FTGate, these are as follows:

 

User Mailbox - See User Mailbox Properties list.

A user mailbox provides a location into which incoming mail for a particular user can be stored. The user can then retrieve the mail using a POP3 mail client. Access is via a password which can either be managed by the mail server or verified against an NT domain. Creating a mailbox of this type increments the used mailbox count by one.

 

List Mailbox - See List Mailbox Properties list

This type of mailbox provides mailing list features, e.g. a discussion list or users group might be a mailing list "users-group". Creating a mailbox of this type increments the used mailbox count by one.

 

Group Mailbox - See Group Mailbox Properties list

This type of mailbox provides local mail group features, e.g. a sales team might have a group mailbox "sales" which would route all mail to sales to each member of the team. Creating a mailbox of this type does not increment the used mailbox count.

 

Auto-Responder Mailbox - See Auto-responder Properties list

This type of mailbox provides auto-responder features, e.g. a sales information system might use an auto-responder to answer queries about product features. Creating a mailbox of this type increments the used mailbox count by one.

 

Robot Mailbox - See Robot Mailbox Properties list

This type of mailbox provides automated robot features, e.g. a database might use a robot mailbox to extract data from messages using a custom program, and then insert the data into the database. Creating a mailbox of this type increments the used mailbox count by one.

 

Null Mailbox

This is a system mailbox. It is provided to aid system management and will delete any message sent to it.

 

DSN Mailbox

The DSN (delivery status notification) mailbox provides feedback when a message delivery is delayed or bounced.

 

Daemon Mailbox

This mailbox sends out administrative alerts and other administrative messages. Also responds to various commands as listed in the Daemon mailbox commands topic in this chapter

 

There are no user configurable properties for the null, DSN and daemon mailboxes as these are system mailboxes.