Managing Users

The Users section is where a Domain Administrator can add, view, and modify the user accounts on their domain, where each account represents a person's actual mailbox and email address (ex: jdoe@example.com). Domain Administrators can modify basic configuration options for a user, including their password method, features they can access, reply-to addresses, webmail preferences and more.

For a better understanding of the actions that can be performed in the Users section, see the Users Overview page.

To access the list of users on your domain, log in to MailWire as a Domain Administrator and click on the Domain Settings icon. Then click on Accounts in the navigation pane. The Users tab will load by default.

Account

• Username - The identifier the user uses to login to MailWire. To change an account's username, click on the Actions (...) button and then Rename.
• User Status - Domain administrators can change the status of a mailbox to limit a user's access as needed. For example, if a user leaves the company, either voluntarily or not, a domain administrator can suspend the account pending further review by company management. Options include:
  • Enabled - The mailbox is in use by the user.
  • Disabled and allow mail - The mailbox continues to receive email but the user is unable to access their mailbox.
  • Disabled and don't allow mail - The mailbox no longer accepts incoming messages and the user is unable to access their mailbox.
• Display Name - The friendly name that is displayed on outgoing messages.
• Authentication Mode - The authentication method used to login: MailWire or Active Directory. To change a user's password when using MailWire verification, click on the Actions (...) button and then Change Password. When using Active Directory, changes to a user's password must be done in the directory itself.
• Active Directory Username - If Active Directory is selected for the Authentication Mode, this field will appear. Enter or adjust the Active Directory username to authenticate against for Active Directory authentication.
• Domain - If Active Directory is selected for the Authentication Mode, this field will appear. Enter or adjust the Domain to authenticate against for Active Directory authentication.
• Mailbox Size Limit - The maximum size of the mailbox. By default, the maximum mailbox size is 100 MBs. However, domain administrators can change this to whatever they like to correspond to company limits. For unlimited disk space, type in 0.
• Domain Administrator - Enable this setting to make this user one of the Domain Administrators for the domain, which allows the user to create new users and edit domain-wide settings.

Service Access

This card can be used to adjust a user's access to the standard protocols that MailWire utilizes. For example, you can limit services like POP, IMAP and SMTP so that specific users are not able to connect their email accounts to external email clients. The following services can be managed for each user:

• Webmail - Enable this option to allow users to log in to MailWire from the webmail interface.
• POP - Enable this option to allow the user to download mail to an email client using POP3.
• IMAP - Enable this option to allow the user to create two-way email sync between MailWire and an email client using IMAP.
• Inbound SMTP - Enable this option to allow users to receive email from external domains.
• Outbound SMTP - Enable this option to allow users to send emails to external domains.
• Chat (XMPP) - Enable this option to activate MailWire's included Group Chat feature for Users.
• External SMTP Accounts - Enable this option to allow users to send email from a third-party mail server account right from within MailWire. For example, if a user has a second email address that they regularly use, enabling this option would allow the user to set up an SMTP Account for that address and choose which account to send from when composing new messages.
• EAS  - This will give the users the ability to set up Exchange accounts on mobile email clients, contacts and calendar apps, etc.
• MAPI/EWS  - This will give the User the ability to set up Exchange accounts in Microsoft Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, Apple Mail and will sync the account to eM Client.

User

• Time Zone - The time zone to use for marking the sending and receiving date and time.
• Reply-to Email Address - The email address used in the reply-to header of messages sent through webmail. This address will be used by receiving email clients when replying to a message.
• Recovery Email Address - The email address to which password reset instructions will be sent if the user forgets their account password. This address should be separate from the MailWire account, such as a Gmail or Yahoo! address, or even the default email address of a Domain Administrator. If the account is protected by 2-Step Authentication, this address may also be used to retrieve the 2-Step verification code.
• Plus Addressing - Plus addressing allows users to automatically sort incoming email without creating content filtering rules first. A major benefit of plus addressing is that it allows users to generate special email addresses if they do not want to give out their real address. For example, if user@example.com needs to provide a valid email address to sign up for a newsletter, he can sign up for the newsletter using the following address: user+technewsletter@example.com. When the newsletter is delivered, it can automatically be routed to the Technewsletter folder. If the folder does not already exist, it can be created automatically. Note: For plus addressing to work, the plus (+) sign is required AFTER the username but BEFORE the domain name. For example, username+foldername@domain.com.
  • Disabled - Select this option to turn off plus addressing for the account.
  • Move to Folder - If the target folder already exists, the incoming message will be placed into it. If the folder does not exist, it will be created automatically. Note: To prevent abuse, no more than 10 folders can be auto-created in this method during a six hour period.
  • Move to Folder (If Exists) - If the target folder already exists, the incoming message will be placed into it. If the folder does not exist, the email will be placed in the Inbox.
  • Leave in Inbox - The incoming message will be placed in the Inbox.
• Calendar Auto-Clean - MailWire allows domain administrators to keep users' past calendar events from cluttering up calendar views. By default, this is set to Domain Default, which follows the policy set by the Administrator for the domain. However, you can adjust this policy per user, as needed.
• Disable password changes - Select this option to prevent the user from changing the login password. This setting overrides the password expiration found in Security settings. A user's password will not expire or be required to be changed if this setting is enabled.
• Show in Global Address List - This setting is enabled by default and allows the user account to be displayed in the Global Address List, which is found in the Contact section. This option is useful for only displaying accounts that are tied to real people as opposed to addresses used by departments, such as support@example.com.

Webmail

• Delete Email Action - To specify the action performed on deleted messages, select the appropriate action from the list. NOTE: This action only affects messages. If folders are deleted, the folder and its contents will always go to the Deleted Items folder.
  • Move to Deleted Items folder - Deleted items will appear in the deleted items folder, which will need to be regularly emptied.
  • Permanently Delete - Permanently deletes the message. Note: When deleted messages are purged, the action is final. You will not be able to retrieve these messages later.
  • Mark as Deleted - Flags the message for deletion, but it does not move messages to the Deleted Items folder and messages remain until the folder is purged.
• Text Encoding - To specify the character set used in messages composed through the Web interface, select the appropriate option from the list. By default, MailWires sets the encoding to Western European (ISO). However, MailWire supports encoding for over 35 different text formats, thereby supporting encoding for most parts of the world.
• Compose Font - Specify the default font for emails by selecting an option from the list.
• Font Size - Specify the default font size for emails by selecting an option from the list.
• Search Language Indexer - The language that the Lucene indexer will index against. In most cases, Generic Indexer is the best selection as it incorporates English and common umlauts. However, if the user views the interface in certain languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, this setting should specify the language for better indexing results.
• Use To: address for replies - When enabled, replying to a message via webmail will use that email's To: field as the Send From address of a reply, regardless of whether the message was sent to a specific MailWire email address or a domain alias, email alias, SMTP account, disposable address or plus address. For example, if an email is sent an alias, replies to that email via webmail will automatically use the email alias address of the Alias member as the Send From address. (This setting does not prevent a user from manually changing the Send From address when composing a message.)
• Mark messages downloaded by POP as read - Select this option to mark all messages that are downloaded via a POP3 connection as read.
• Show images from external websites - Enable this option to automatically display all in-line remote content when an email is viewed. (Remote content is considered to be any image, video, animated gif, etc. that has an external source and is contained in the message.) When this is enabled, the user will not have to manually display the remote content on emails they receive; it will be visible automatically. Note: Emails from trusted domains and senders will always display remote content automatically.

Forwarding

If this card is not displayed, your domain has not been permitted to utilize automated forwarding.

• Forward all email to another address - Select this option to allow the user to utilize the automated forwarding feature and to display the forwarding settings. If this setting is disabled, the Forwarding card will not be displayed in the user's Account Settings.
• Forwarding Address - The email address to which messages sent to the mailbox will be automatically forwarded. Note: Messages routed to other email folders via content filters or plus addressing will also be forwarded to this address.
• Forward Method - To specify the method by which messages are forwarded, select the appropriate option from the list.
  • Normal - Includes original content, including font styles from the original message, as part of the new message.
  • Text - Inserts the plain text version of the original message into the new message. This is useful if you want to exclude links, fonts, or other formatting.
  • Embed as Attachment - Attaches the original message to the new message as an attachment. The message will not appear in the body of your message.
• Delete messages when forwarded - Select this option to delete messages from the MailWire mailbox after they are forwarded.

User Groups

User Groups are used to give a specific subset of users on the domain permission to access shared resources. For example, if a business wanted to make it easy for members of its sales department to share their calendars with other team members, the domain administrator would create a user group for all the sales department employees.