Chapter 4. Managing Your Profile

Your Profile contains information about your Messaging Server email account, as well as any personal information that you or your company might wish to share with other Messaging Server users. To display your Profile, in the Preferences Manager select Preferences, then Your Profile.

Most information in your Profile can be modified by you at any time. To do so, enter new information or edit existing information in the field boxes, then click the Apply button to enter your changes. Some fields (indicated below with asterisks "*") cannot be edited; you must ask your mail administrator to do so for you.

Note: The Messaging Server might be configured to enable display but not modification of your Profile. If this is the case, you cannot enter changes in Your Profile fields and you must ask your mail administrator to do so for you.

Profiles consist of the following information:

User ID* 

Your unique identification name for the Messaging Server (example: sues).

First Name 

Your first name (example: "Sue").

Last Name 

Your last name (example: "Smith").

Display Name 

Your first and last name (example: "Sue Smith"). You can also add brief distinguishing information, such as a job title (example: "Sue Smith, Account Supervisor").

Mail address* 

Your primary Internet email address. In most cases this will be your User ID with the Messaging Server mail domain name appended; the mail domain is often a company or Internet service provider name.

Note: When you send email, your message header includes Display Name and Mail address by default (unless your mail administrator has modified the defaults); for example:

    Sue Smith, Account Supervisor <sues@mycompany.com>

Work Phone 

Your business phone number.

Mobile Phone 

Your mobile phone number.

Home Phone 

Your home phone number.

Pager 

Your pager number.

FAX 

Your facsimile telephone number.

Title 

Your job title or other distinguishing information.

Office Location 

Your office name or other information necessary for a physical delivery.

Alternate Mail* 

An alternate email address; for example, an external private email address that you might wish to share, or to which you might want to forward personal messages.