Hello. I have searched all over for something like this but I can’t find anything specific other than dealing with Personal Contacts and I don’t think that’s the problem.
I have 10 user groups…a lotusscript agent is called to send an email to whichever of the ten groups is specified inside a field within a document.
9 of the groups works fine when the agent is invoked, but the 10th…nothing happens…no error is raised, etc.
I tried to send an email to this group via the UI and i received the ambiguous name dialog box…it wants me to choose between the group and an individual with a similar name to the group. This is what displays as the ambiguity…despite the literal name “Group” being entered in the SendTo field…
Group
Joe Group/DOMAIN/US
As I researched further, I found that the lotusscript send method won’t send an email at all if an ambiguity is encountered. Following on this same path, I appended the domain name (@domain_name) to the group name in the SendTo field to bypass the initial validations. Since Domino is now forced to attempt to route the email, it still goes nowhere but this time logs the ambiguous recipients error.
Is there a way around this short of changing the group name? It’s kinda weird how the literal name for the group raises an ambiguity with Joe Group/DOMAIN/US…
memo.SendTo=“Group”
I also understand this occurs not among groups…but only if a person name is involved…
In the least, is it possible to get the Ambiguous Name dialog box to display within lotusscript? The agent is client-based.
Subject: Mail domain name or full internet domain name?
When you say that you are appending the domain name are you appending just the Domino mail domain name (e.g. @mail) or is it your company’s full internet domain name (e.g. @mycompany.com)? If it’s just the Domino mail domain then try using the full internet domain name instead.
that the first column in the ($Users) view in the Domino Directory is what the router uses to determine mail destinations. The column formula displays a multitude of fields/values for the Person records (including LastName) and the group name for Groups.
So if there is a Group name that matches a person’s LastName, an ambiguity will always be created.
What I don’t get however is why this isn’t more prevalent of a problem unless I am missing something.
I just tried the full internet address as you suggested…it creates the same error on the ambiguity…Recipient so and so not unique. Several matches found in the Domino Directory.
Tom, I feel you on this one. I’ve really looked for a way to use the Ambiguous Error Dialog Box within Lotus-script, lucky for you, you have the option of changing the name of the group. In my scenario, they’re two senior people in the organisation, who will not have their names changed.