Configuring the Async Gateway
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Novell Confidential
Manual (ENU) 21 December 2004
Addressing Rule Concepts
Addressing rules allow your users to select an external address from their personal address books
or enter a shortened form of an address that is then resolved to an explicit Async Gateway address.
Addressing rules are created with the Addressing Rules tool, available from the GroupWise
System Operations menu in ConsoleOne. Addressing rules created there are available for any
domain in the GroupWise system. Understanding the following characteristics of the Addressing
Rules tool might help you as you use it:
The Addressing Rules tool is not a macro language. You cannot use one rule to trigger
another. It is more of a search-and-replace engine.
The tool searches for a specific string pattern and replaces it with the syntax defined in the
rule.
The complexity of the addressing rule you construct depends on the number of async
connections possible. Generally, the more Async Gateways you can connect to, the more
complex the rule you might need to construct.
An unlimited number of addressing rules can be created or selected for a given domain.
The Addressing Rules tool looks at the rules in the order they are listed. When the tool
encounters a rule that applies to the address syntax entered by the user, no other rule is applied.
Therefore, the rules should be listed in order from general to specific.
Creating an Async Addressing Rule
Before you create a customized addressing rule for the Async Gateway, remember to obtain all the
remote login IDs and the
domain.post_office
combinations of the other GroupWise systems you
connect to with the Async Gateway.
To create an Async Gateway addressing rule:
1
In ConsoleOne, click Tools > GroupWise System Operations > Addressing Rules.
2
Click New to create a new rule or Copy to use an existing rule as a template for a new rule.
