For security reasons there are some messages that need to be authorized before being sent to the final recipient. Some users are set as authorizers in their user profiles, and others don’t have the right to send out certain messages without authorization.

If you don’t have the right to send certain messages out directly you must not only specify the final recipient in the To field, but also the authorizer in the Auth field. The message is then relayed to the authorizer. If he approves it, it is sent out from his workstation; otherwise it is sent back to you.

If you are an authorizer, outgoing messages from other users will first be sent to you. If you approve you can sign the message and send it out, and if you disapprove you reject the message by clicking the Reject icon or selecting Reject from the Message menu. The message is then sent back to the original sender.

There can be one or many authorizers for one message. The message is then simply sent from one authorizer to the next every time it’s approved until it reaches the last authorizer in the chain. If he too approves it, it is sent out.