I have set up a CDC as a company wide shared address book. This aggregates two databases, names.nsf and pubnames.nsf (our internal shared public address book). All users have a bookmark to pubnames on the server to edit and add addresses. I am new to notes/domino so this may not be the right way of doing things, but it is (mostly) working for us.
The problem we are having is if a user leaves (who has) and a match does not occur for them in names.nbf (say John), domino continues searching the CDC (I assume) and finds a John in the pubnames database. So this means that the original message gets forwarded to john@externalcompany.com, which of course could be very bad.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this may cause us a lot of grief.
PS: The reasons we like the CDC and have taken this option are:
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Easy to setup as part of the users profile (automatically replicated for off-line use, email auto completion etc)
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LDAP support (our developers are on Linux, and use Thurderbird for mail, the LDAP searching works well, once configured).
Subject: Condensed Directory Catalog (CDC) as a company address book
I’m not familiar enough with the Notes mailer and Domino router’s options for sending names (i.e., I am not answering your intended question), but regarding your use of a CDC …
If this directory is to be replicated to Notes clients, for possibly offline use, then a CDC is the right kind of directory.
If however the directory is run on the Domino server, please consider using an Extended Directory Catalog instead. See http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/domino_notes/Rnext/help6_admin.nsf/f4b82fbb75e942a6852566ac0037f284/af52d59dbccca5fb85256c1d00394319?OpenDocument
You can create both, one for Notes (CDC) and one for Domino (EDC).
Subject: Re: Condensed Directory Catalog (CDC) as a company address book
After the last post and a bit more reading I still have not figured out how to do what we need. An extended directory catalog had a similar effect (I have not yet tried very hard on this however).
What I have done now is on the ‘Current Server Document’ under ‘Name of condensed directory catalog on this server’ I removed the value I had, which was ‘cdc.nsf’ and left it blank. This has fixed the incoming mail problem sending to users in our address book, but has broken LDAP lookups.