In order for us to connect to your Mimecast account you will need to:
Use a single User that has the only the permissions needed for timetoreply™ to work.
Update the Authentication Cache TTL setting in the service user’s effective Authentication Profile to “Never Expire.”
This page provides a step by step guide to prepare a User for us to connect with.
We will use this User to get an access key which is required to authorize all requests to the Mimecast API.
Note: should you ever wish to cancel your account with timetoreply™ or simply prevent access, you can easily remove this User from your Mimecast account at any time. This will prevent timetoreply™ from having any access to your account. We do not store the password of the User you create with these instructions.
Step 1: Create a new user
Login to the Mimecast Administration Console.
Navigate to the Administration | Directories | Internal Directories menu item to display a list of internal domains.
Select the internal domain where you would like to create your new user.
Select the New Address button from the menu bar.
Complete the new address form and select Save and Exit to create the new user.
Keep a note of the password set as we will need this to connect to your account later.
Step 2: Add the User to a newly created Role.
While logged into the Mimecast Administration Console, navigate to the Administration | Account | Roles menu item to display the Roles page.
Click on the New Role button at the top.
Give the role a name and description, for example, ‘timetoreply™’ and ‘Role for timetoreply™’
For Security Permissions, select “Cannot Manage Roles”
For Application Permissions, unselect all options, then add just the following permissions:
Account Menu | Dashboard | Read, Edit
Archive Menu | Search | Read, Search Content View
Directories Menu | Internal | Read
Note: The Search Content View permission is Administrator-level permission. If you do not wish to grant this permission, you can also grant delegate permission for this User to all the Agents you plan to add to timetoreply™.
Save and Exit the role.
Navigate back to the navigate to the Administration | Account | Roles menu item to display the Roles page.
Right-click the role we just created and select Add Users to role.
Browse or search to find the new user created in Step 1
Select the tick box to the left of the user.
Select the Add selected Users button to add the User to the role.
Step 3: Create a new group and add your new user
While logged into the Mimecast Administration Console, navigate to the Administration | Directories | Profile Groups menu item to display the Profile groups page.
Create a new group by selecting the plus icon on the parent folder where you would like to create the group. This creates a new group with the Name “New Folder”
To rename the group, select the newly created “New Folder” group. Then from the Edit group text box type the name you want to give the folder, for example timetoreply™ Admin and press the Enter key to apply the change.
With the group selected, select the Build drop-down button and select Add Email Addresses.
Type the name of the new User created in Step 1.
Select Save and Exit to add the new User to the group.
Step 4: Create a new Authentication Profile
While logged into the Mimecast Administration Console, navigate to the Administration | Services | Applications menu item to display the Application Settings page.
Select the Authentication Profiles button.
Select the New Authentication Profile button.
Type a Description for the new profile.
If your organization connects with Mimecast using Active Directory or Domino Directory, set the Domain Authentication Mechanisms option to LDAP, otherwise leave the setting as default.
Set the Authentication TTL setting to Never Expires. This will make sure that when we generate your Authentication Token it will not expire and impact data collection by timetoreply™. timetoreply™ will not store the password of this User for security reasons. Doing this allows us to connect to Mimecast using only the API Token we will generate for you.
Leave all other settings as their default.
Select Save and Exit to create the profile.
Step 5: Create a new Application Setting
While logged into the Administration Console, navigate to the Administration | Services | Applications menu item to display the Application Settings page.
Select the New Application Settings button.
Type a Description.
Use the Group Lookup button to select the Group that you created in Step 3.
Use the Authentication Profile Lookup button to select the Authentication Profile created in Step 4.
Leave all other settings as their default.
Select Save and Exit to create and apply the Application Settings to your new group and user.
Step 6: Enter the details of your new User in the form below
Finally, you will need to whitelist our IP range from your Mimecast dashboard: 52.56.163.227
