Mailbox Dependent Custom Menus

Question

Hi,
I have written a C3PO that, on initialisation, checks the email ID of the
mailbox. If the ID matches a particular account (used to broadcast
messages to large numbers of staff) then a new menu is added to the "Mail
To:" window that allows the user to choose predefined groups of recipients.
I've now been asked to modify the C3PO such that users with proxy access
to this particular mailbox can use the custom menu (instead of quitting
GroupWise and logging back in as the account for broadcasting messages).
I wish to retain the feature that the custom menu is only visible when the
appropriate mailbox is being accessed since it is not desirable to have
mass mail sent from an individual's mailbox.
However proxy access can be performed from several places, including the
Mail To: window.
Can anyone advise me on how I should go about checking the ID after the
C3PO has been initialised and perhaps trapping when proxy access has been
invoked/revoked?
Many thanks in advance,
Andy

Answer 1

That's a tough one - initialization won't work. I don't think there is a
proxy event. Why not do this - add the mailto menu for all, but then add
your check to the VALIDATE code. I think you can check the proxyid with
tokens just like the user id. SO, whenever someone pulls down the menu,
it will check for the user name, and if it is the right user the menu
will be active, and if not it will be grayed out. I think validation
happens at every pulldown.
Additionally, why not just add the menu to everybody, and then change the
execution for the menu so that YOUR CODE does the proxying and then
creates a new item to send to the particular group? Or is there a
passwording issue?
[email protected] (Andy Cooper) wrote in
news:RAQxf.179$[email protected]:
> Hi,
>
> I have written a C3PO that, on initialisation, checks the email ID of
> the mailbox. If the ID matches a particular account (used to
> broadcast messages to large numbers of staff) then a new menu is added
> to the "Mail To:" window that allows the user to choose predefined
> groups of recipients.
>
> I've now been asked to modify the C3PO such that users with proxy
> access to this particular mailbox can use the custom menu (instead of
> quitting GroupWise and logging back in as the account for broadcasting
> messages).
>
> I wish to retain the feature that the custom menu is only visible when
> the appropriate mailbox is being accessed since it is not desirable to
> have mass mail sent from an individual's mailbox.
>
> However proxy access can be performed from several places, including
> the Mail To: window.
>
> Can anyone advise me on how I should go about checking the ID after
> the C3PO has been initialised and perhaps trapping when proxy access
> has been invoked/revoked?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
Regards,
Michael Risch
Developer SysOp 3