General User Settings

General User Settings are those settings that apply to External User accounts or Internal User accounts that are not created by the administrator, but are created through LDAP or invitations.

To manage general user settings

1. Launch the Mail Express Server administration interface. (e.g., click Start > Programs > Globalscape > Mail Express > Mail Express Admin or double-click the desktop shortcut).

2. Log in using the Mail Express Server administrator username and password that you specified during installation of the server.

3. In the navigation pane, click User Management > General. The General User Settings page appears.



4. Select or clear the check boxes as needed:

• Require email verification to activate an account—When this check box is selected, for accounts that are created automatically, e.g., by LDAP or by an internal user's invitation, Mail Express sends an email to external users with an activation link. The external user must then click the link in the email to activate the account (thus verifying that it is a valid account).

• Allow accounts to expire—When this check box is selected, you can specify whether user accounts can expire and whether the account expires based on age or inactivity. For example, if you want all accounts to expire after 1 month of inactivity, you would select this check box, click Inactivity, then specify 1 month in the drop-down list. You can specify from 1 minute to 99 years.

• Allow internal users to send account invitations—When this check box is selected, all internal users are allowed to send account invitations. This is the "global on/off switch" for account invitations. When this check box is selected, the internal user account still needs to have the user-level permission enabled to send account invitations. If this check box is selected, but the user-level permission in the internal user's account is not enabled, the account cannot send invitations.

• Allow new internal users to send account invitations by default—When this check box is selected, the Allow user to send account invitations check box on the Internal User Details page is selected by default.

• Allow new internal users to access Drop-Off portal by default—When this check box is selected, the Allow user to access Drop-Off portal check box in the Internal User Details page is selected by default. Users created through LDAP get this privilege by default.

5. Click Save to save the changes on the server or click Restore to restore the settings in the boxes to their last saved state.