Advantage to create mails in mail.box?

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We have an old application that sends emails to our customers. To do that the email is created directly in the mail.box.

One of the caveats of that approach is if any of the recipients of the email is an internal user. For them the email appears in the Draft view and also in the inbox. One of our users didn’t realize that situation, so he deleted them. That cause loosing critical information for his work.

I am changing the creation of those emails, but I am wondering:

Which is the advantage to create an email directly in the mail.box?

I was searching this forum and I found a nice agent created by Chris Toohey (http://www.dominoguru.com) He does exactly the same thing: create emails directly in the mail box.

Do I am loosing something sending the email in a different way?

Thanks for any input on this matter.

Irely Roa

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Subject: Advantage to create mails in mail.box ???

Advantage to creating directly in mail.box: You can spoof the From field, making the e-mail look like it came from any sender you wish.

Disadvantages:

Number 1, Lotus will endlessly repeat that this is not supported. You screw something up, you’re on your own.

  1. An application that worked in one release may not work in another. If Lotus modifies the fields needed for memos, the Send function will be updated to include them, but documents created by your application in mail.box may not.

  2. If you have developers who don’t know what they’re doing, you can end up with behavior such as you described, where messages end up in the Draft view because they were improperly designed.

Unless you really need the sender name spoofing, the practice should be avoided.