PMM authentication

Personal Message Management (PMM) enables users to personally manage their held messages. In order to ensure that only authorized users can access their data, PMM Portal (Full Mode) can be configured to authenticate users.

Authenticating users

The Authentication Settings page enables you to configure how Secure Email Gateway authenticates PMM users who access the Portal.

When a user accesses the Portal, the Gateway authenticates each request by making a connection with the user's domain and retrieving the necessary information from the domain controller. The domain controller manages the organizational information and email addresses of users associated with the domain.

Often, a network may consist of a number of sub-domains, organized within a domain forest. In this scenario, users are authenticated in the same way, as each sub-domain has a trust relationship with the domain controller.

Using the Authentication Settings page, you can add and modify domain controllers to support any number of domains, enabling users to access the Portal from any domain or domain forest.

  To configure authentication across the domain, the Gateway must be connected to the domain controller.

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