is used as the first part of the e-mail address. The e-mail address suffix is typically the e-mail suffix of the Internet fax provider’s SMTP gateway (for example, efax.com). Unless the Internet fax provider offers it, the Internet fax method does not provide fax notification.

Addressing

This section contains the following topics:

●Overview of addressing when managed by DSS

●Direct LDAP Addressing vs LDAP Replication

●Device differences in addressing

●Where addresses are stored

Overview of addressing when managed by DSS

The purpose of the addressing features of DSS is to serve up address books to supported devices. This replaces the local address book capabilities of the device, with the exception of the LDAP Addressing feature – which is still available.

When a Digital Sending-enabled device is serviced by DSS it automatically uses DSS as an address book service. Which address book features are made available to the device depends on two factors:

●Which features are enabled in DSS.

●If the user is authenticated at the device.

The Public and Guest address books are always available to the device.

How the device reads from the DSS address books

Depending on the type of device it will use DSMP (Digital Sending Management Protocol) or WS to access the DSS address book. As a user is entering a name, e-mail address or fax number at the front panel of the device it queries the DSS address book. DSS returns matches from all available address books as a sorted list. The device then uses this information to “auto-complete” the user’s entry in the destination field.

How the device writes entries to the DSS address books

When a user enters a new e-mail address or fax number in a destination field at the device, the device by default prompts the user if the new destination should be stored in the address book. If the user selects “yes” what occurs depends on whether or not the user is authenticated, as follows:

●Authenticated: the entry goes into the user’s Personal Address Book.

●Not authenticated: if the administrator has flagged the Public Address Book as editable by devices, the entry goes into the Public Address Book. Otherwise the entry is ignored.

Exchange Contacts

When an address book query comes in from a device with an authenticated user DSS uses “RPC over HTTP” to connect to the Microsoft Exchange server in order to access the user’s Exchange

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