Inbox

When you receive an invitation from another Mamut Teamwork user you need to go to your Inbox to receive your new Share, Stream Send files. You can opt to initiate the Inbox wizard or directly copy your invitation code into the Invitation code field at the bottom of the window.

The sender enters a user name (e-mail address) to where an invitation should be sent. The recipient will then receive a Mamut Invitation code in his or her regular e-mail Inbox, and has to copy this to the Mamut Teamwork Inbox in order to start the file-uploading process.

In addition, the sender includes a Mamut Key, which can be unique for every transaction: the Mamut Key needs to be conveyed to the recipient. It acts as a security measure to ensure that only the intended person can receive the files, and is needed to activate the encryption process when sending files via the Internet.

Including a Mamut Key increases the security if, for example, you send the invitation to the wrong address, since the Mamut Key has to be given to the recipient separately, either in another e-mail or over the telephone.

When receiving invitations, the process for accessing the sent files is the same for all other functions except for in Sync, which is a function for synchronising different computers that are connected to the same Mamut Teamwork user account.

When you receive a Sync it will be added to the Sync task folder on all the computers you are using, without there being sent an invitation

You should not edit files that you received via the Stream function. If you would like to edit these on your own machine, we recommend that you copy them from the location where you received them to another location on your computer. By editing directly in the receiving task folder, you will cause a conflict between the files, which then needs to be resolved manually.

The recipient can resolve a conflict by moving the file(s) out of the task folder they were received in. Since the files are being continuously updated by the server, the missing file(s) will be downloaded to the recipient again in the exact same version as saved on the sender's machine.

The invitation code may only be used once. Should something have gone wrong during the file-accessing process, you can ask the sender to supply you with a new invitation code. The sender can do so manually via the magnifying glass-icon in the existing activity or by setting up a new transaction.

The process of how to invite a recipient to receive an existing activity is described in the section Setting up a Stream.