On our Domino server (6.5.2) we have nine (yes 9) cascaded address books (NAB + 8 others - don’t ask why…)Access to these address books is limited based on the department.
In some cases more than one departments have contacts with similar names in their address books. As a result,
sometimes email sent to “John Doe” selected from address book B, may get delivered to “John Doe” from
address book A which is first in the search order.
In order to avoid this problem, we enabled the “Exhaustively check all address books” setting in the location
documents of some users. Now if they try to send an email and a duplicate is found they get the ambigous name
dialog prompting them to select the correct name. The problem is that the dialog displays matches from all address books, even those the user doesn’t have access to! I guess this is because the lookup is done on the server, but this way, the user can send an email to a person who’s in an address book he cannot access directly. This is quite serious since some of our address books contain contacts used by CEOs and higher management.
Is there a way around this?
Has it been reported to Lotus as a bug?
cheers,
- T