How to Control Access to Domain Contacts Using the Postmaster Account

How to restrict access to domain contacts for selected accounts

Solution

WARNING: "MACL" support must be enabled for the domain. If it is not, the options below will not be available. To enable MACL support for a domain, please consult this knowledgebase article:

https://www.axigen.com/kb/show/155

To apply custom access policies for the domain contacts you can use the "permissions" option for the corresponding public folder.

NOTE: By default the Domain contacts come with these "allow" permissions for all users in the respective domain (everything else is implicitly denied):
                                           - View folder
                                           - Read folder content

If you require the modification of the above policy, please follow these steps:

  1. Log in on the Webmail interface using the postmaster account of the required domain.

  2. Right-Click on the public folder "Domain contacts" and select the "Sharing" option from the pop-up menu. This will open a pop-up window that lists the current permissions on the respective folder. If no other settings were made previously, the list will be empty.

  3. In the pop-up window click the "Add" button.

  4. In the "User / group name" section click the "Select" button.

  5. Select "All Users" (or just the account that requires special access settings to the domain contacts) and click the "Add" button.

  6. Click the "OK" button.

  7. Select from the "Permission level" drop-down box the settings that you require. For example you can deny access for the selected user at point 5, by selecting from the drop-down box "No access".

  8. Click the "OK" button.

  9. Click the "Save & Close" button to save all changes.
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