Mask Property

Microsoft Chat Server SDK Reference

This property retrieves the access control mask.

AccessMask = ChatAccessEntry.Mask

AccessMask: String representing user by nickname or identity, channel, or server host. See remarks.

The format of the mask is as follows:

nick!username@host$servername

For both Network and Server access entries, the "servername" part is set to "$*" if not specified.

The mask string can contain the wildcards * and ?. The following table contains examples of valid access entry masks.

Mask	Meaning
nick??!@$*	Any nickname containing "nick" followed by any two characters.
!username@domain$	Specific user identity without regard to nickname.
!@domain$*	Any users from the "domain" domain.
!@*$chat1	Any users attached to the "chat1" chat server.