Introduction to TRANSFER Delivery System

The TRANSFER Environment Depots
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Depots
A depot is that part of the TRANSFER database that belongs to a specific
correspondent. The depot is established when the system administrator registers the
correspondent name with TRANSFER. Every correspondent has one depot. A depot
serves two purposes:
■ The depot describes the correspondent to TRANSFER and to applications.
■ The depot gives the correspondent a way to store, organize, and create packages.
Figure 2-1 depicts a depot. A depot contains profiles, distribution lists, and folders.
Folders contain items and packages.
Each interest group has a group depot with profiles, folders, and distribution lists like
those for a correspondent depot. Correspondents cannot, however, log on to a group
depot. Correspondents access a group’s distribution lists, folders, and packages by
specifying them from their individual correspondent depots.