Account Data
	Domain Files Account Files Personal Web Site Preferences Netscape Roaming The CommuniGate Pro server stores account information in several places. Most of the information is stored in the account service files, while some account data is grouped in the domain files.

Domain Files

For each CommuniGate Pro domain, a file directory is created in the Domains subdirectory inside the Server base directory. The directories have the same names as the domains.

For the main domain, the Accounts file directory is created inside the base directory.

Inside each domain file directory, a Settings file directory is created. This directory contains the following files:

Access.settings

This file has the dictionary format, and contains the names of the users that have administrative access rights to the server or to the domain, and the list of the granted rights. By storing all administrative access rights in one location the CommuniGate Pro Server makes it easier to maintain server security. Only the Access.settings file stored in the main domain Settings directory can contain the server-level access rights. All other files can contain only the domain-level administrative access rights.

Domain.settings

This file contains the domain settings.

RPOP.data

This file contains the information about all individual RPOP (remote POP) accounts that should be polled on behalf of the domain users.

Template.settings

This file contains the Account Template for this domain and provides the default account settings for new accounts in this domain.

Aliases.data

This file contains the list of all account-level aliases specified for the domain accounts.

LISTS

This directory contains files with the information about the mailing lists created in the domain.

WebUser

This directory contains HTML files that customize the WebUser Interface to the domain accounts and mailing lists.
The Domain Administrator can place HTML and other files into this directory (publish them) using any HTML composer application that supports the POST, DELETE, and MOVE HTTP methods.

Account Files

Every CommuniGate Pro account contains at least one (INBOX) mailbox file, and at least two service files. Service files have special file name extensions, and .settings and .info service files always exist. The .settings file contains account settings, while the .info file contains volatile account information, such as mailbox sizes, last UIDs used in each mailbox, etc. Since the .info file is being modified rather often, the CommuniGate Pro server is built to survive .info file corruptions. For example, if the mailbox last UID information is corrupted, the server rescans the mailbox and restores the correct mailbox info.

The account files are located in the domain file directory or in its subdirectory (see the Domains section for the details).

For a multi-mailbox account, a directory with the account name and .macnt extension is created, and all account files are stored in that directory. The account service files are stored as account.extension. The INBOX mailbox is stored as the INBOX.mailboxType file.
Example: for the multi-mailbox account John, the john.macnt directory is created, and the files INBOX.mbox, account.settings, account.info are placed in that directory.

For a single-mailbox account, the INBOX mailbox is created as a file in the domain file directory or its subdirectory, and it has the accountName.mailboxType file name. The account service files are stored in the same directory as accountName.extension.
Example: for the single-mailbox account John, the john.mbox, john.settings, and john.info are placed into the domain file directory.

Personal Web Site

The Personal Web Site files are stored in the account service directory with the .web file name extension.

Preferences

The CommuniGate Pro Server allows a user to store various application preferences in the account and to retrieve them from any computer. This service, known as roaming service is available via both LDAP and ACAP protocols.

Account preferences are stored in the optional .prefs account service file.

Netscape Roaming

The Netscape® Communicator product can use any advanced HTTP server to store and restore its settings.

To use this Netscape Roaming service, the user should specify the following URL as the Roaming Server URL:
http://domain[:port]/Settings/
where domain is the user domain (or the main CommuniGate Pro domain), and port is the CommuniGate Pro User HTTP port.

The actual account name is not specified in this URL. Access to the /Settings/ realm requires authentication, and the CommuniGate Pro Server opens the account specified in the browser username/password dialog box.

If the URL used contains the correct domain name of the target account, the account name can be specified as a simple name (i.e. without the domain part), but if the URL contains the name of some other CommuniGatePro domain (because the target domain does not have any A-record), the account name should be specified along with the domain name, i.e. instead of the jsmith string, the jsmith@domain.com string should be used in the Netscape username/password dialog box.

The Netscape Settings are stored as separate files inside the account service directory with the .roaming extension.