Table of contents

• Overview
  • Identity structure
  • Identity types
• Authorization
• Manage identities
  • Management actions

Overview

To send outgoing email from OpenPaaS, you will need to set up at least one email identity. Email identities allow you to choose which address you want to use to send an email. You can set up as many identities as you need once domain administrator allows.

Identity structure

An identity contains:

• Required attributes:
  • Description: To describe for an identity
  • Name: The name of an identity
  • Email address: The email to fill the From field when sending an email
• Optional attributes:
  • Reply to address: Once defined, this email will be filled the To field instead of email address when the recipients reply to sender
  • Mobile signature: The identity signature that is displayed when composing an email on desktop screen
  • Desktop signature: The identity signature that is displayed when composing an email on mobile screen

The valid values for Email adress and Reply to address of a specific user are:

• The user primary email
• The user email aliases
• The domain aliases if domain administrators allow by the following steps:
  • Go to Administration module
  • Then Modules page. Expand Unifiedinbox configuration form
  • In the Identities part. Turn on Allow users to choose identity emails from domain aliases

  

Identity types

There are two types of identity:

• Default: The default identity of a user will be fill the From field as default when the user opens an email composer. A user only has one default identity.
• Additional: A user can have multiple additional identities that he can choose to fill the From field when composing an email

Authorization

Domain administrators are able to manage identities of their domain members.

Domain members can see their identities. To manage their identites, they need the authorization from their domain administrators. A domain administrator can allow his domain members to manage their identities by the following steps:

• Go to Administration module
• Then Modules page. Expand Unifiedinbox configuration form
• In the Identities part. Turn on Allow users to manage their identities

Manage identities

Identities management interface of a specific user is available in a tab in user profile page

Management actions

There are 3 management actions: add, edit and remove.

• Users can set the default identity when adding a new identity or updating an existing identity
• Users can remove additional identities but cannot remove the default identity