Setting Up ELA and Shadow Mailbox Community IDs

This topic provides information about setting up Community IDs for use with ELA. Community IDs are used to restrict message sending and receiving among groups of subscribers.

You must set up the following Community IDs for ELA:

• You must set up a Community ID for the enhanced-list mailbox community. Give that community permission to send to all other communities (except the shadow mailbox community).
• You must set up a shadow mailbox Community ID. The shadow mailbox Community ID is administered so that messages can be sent to any community, but messages cannot be received from any other community.
• If you choose to restrict access to ELA usage, you can also set up a special subscriber community and then administer that community to send to all communities except the shadow mailbox community. Place only those subscribers to whom you give permission to use the enhanced-lists into this special community. All other subscribers must be administered to belong to a community restricted from sending messages to the enhanced-list mailbox community.

Before you set up the Community IDs for ELA, use the display system-parameters sending restrictions command in AUDIX administration and verify that there are at least two communities that you can use for ELA (four communities are needed if you are going to implement a special community for selected subscribers with access to ELA mailboxes).

Note: If the INTUITY system is networked with other INTUITY systems, all enhanced-list mailbox community sending restrictions must be consistently applied throughout the systems. Community ID numbers must have the same meanings on all machines. Of particular importance is that the shadow mailbox community must not be accessible by any other community on any machine in the network. See Setting Up Community Sending Restrictions for a thorough description of Community Sending Restrictions.

Setting Up the ELA Community ID and Shadow Community ID

To set up the ELA Community ID and Shadow Community ID:

1. Start at the Messaging Administration main menu and select Messaging. Enter your login.

The system then displays the AUDIX Command Prompt screen.

2. At the enter command: prompt, enter change system-parameters sending-restrictions.

The system displays the Sending Restrictions screen. In the sample screen:

• The enhanced-list mailbox community is set as Community 10. Community 10 is given permission to send to all other communities (except the shadow mailbox community).
• A special subscriber community, Community 9, is administered to send to all communities (except the shadow mailbox community). Only subscribers you would like to have access to the enhanced-lists are placed into Community 9. All other subscribers are not able to send a message to the ELA mailbox.
• The shadow mailbox community ID is set as Community 11. The shadow mailbox community ID in the sample is administered so that messages can be sent to any community, but messages cannot be received from any other community.
3. Enter y in the Activate Restrictions? field.
4. Leave all fields blank (horizontally) that correspond to the (sender) Community ID that you have assigned to ELA, and leave all fields blank (vertically) that correspond to the (recipient) Community ID you have assigned for subscribers who will have access to the enhanced-lists. (If all subscribers are to have access to enhanced-lists, the recipient community will be the default subscriber community—usually community 1.)
5. If all subscribers are to have access to enhanced-lists, skip this step.

Otherwise, enter an r in the field that corresponds to the intersection between the (recipient) ELA Community ID and the (sender) community to which the rest of the subscriber population belongs. This action prevents those who do not have access to enhanced-lists from sending a message to an enhanced-list.

6. Enter an r in all (recipient community) fields in the column that corresponds to the Community ID that you assigned to the shadow mailbox. This prevents messages from being sent into the shadow mailbox.
7. Press F3 (Enter) to save the information in the system database.

The cursor returns to the command line, and the system displays the following message:

Command Successfully Completed.


 

Note: You must now use the Change Subscriber screen to assign your subscribers either to the community that does not have access to enhanced-lists or to the special community that does have access. If you used your default subscriber community (Community 1) as the community that does not have access, then you have to administer only those selected individuals who will belong to the new special community with access to enhanced-lists.

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