Authentication - Access of mailboxes, User management

Basically, connector SE and connector for Domino both use a privileged account to impersonate the user's mailbox.

In case a messaging system doesn’t support 2-legged authentication, connector requires the credentials of every user whose mailbox should be synchronized in order to access their mailboxes.

The credentials (SMTP address and password) are stored in the connector database (see Figure 1, Architecture - Overview above and also the chapter Connection Settings below). The user's passwords are encrypted with the key specified in the users.xml.

Most of the messaging systems do not support impersonation or other ways of 2-legged authentication.