Mail Router error and "Recent Contacts" in personal directory

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We built a brand new domain built on 8.5. This will replace our legacy 6.5.6 domain. I have everthing cross certified and moved my mail file to the 8.5 server keeping my Directory Server pointing to he legacy address book (because I have not moved them until I do renaming,…to the new OU.)

However, if I send an email to a person in the legacy system, get a mail router error indicating that cannot find user.

User / (/<@IPdomain>.com) not listed in Domino Directory

The routing path shows that the message doesn’t know how to get to the legacy server for proper routing. Stays at <8.5 Server>/, <8.5 Server>/.

Interesting though, this only happens if the person winds up listed as a “Recent Contact” in my local 8.5 names.nsf. If I delete the user in this recent view, I can then resend the delivery error to the intended recepient without fail.

I have since taken out names.nsf in my user preferences to force the lookup to the next available source (the legacy directory.)

Is there something (i.e. on outbound settings) that I can set to keep my preferences and not have delivery failures ?

We are staging people into the new 8.5 domain so this will become a much bigger issue .

Also, I tried to incorporate Directory Assistance but that did not seem to find the legacy names.nsf directory in the replica on the 8.5 server DA.

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Subject: Looks like you are migrating, you can filter out the old addresses through a notes.ini setting

For example:

DPABRemoveRule=@aol.com
would block all addresses with “@aol.com” in them would be blocked from adding the address to DPAB

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Subject: Do both names exist in the new directory?

The legacy name usually needs to exist as part of the person record in the Domino directory for some period of time. Have you

gone past that point in time?

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Subject: Yes

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Subject: Thanks to all, still this is strange but here is some advice.

We are not upgrading any legacy Notes servers and just building a completly new domain. So in our case , I have replicated (via OS) my mail file to the new cross certified domain. My location docs all point to the new server in the new domain Except (Directory Server ) which still points to the legacy Dir Server. I use this so I can still set up meetings off the Legacy server while start moving over. Also, this gives me a ability to select names that are still on the legacy domain. I tried to set up DA on the new 8.5 domain but it did not pick the replicated legacy address book after several mods and server reboots.

In any case, I set (meaining Enable) “Do Not Automatically Add Names To Recent Contacts View” Option in Preferences - Contacts. This did the trick. We are probably getting conflicts causing the router to fail because I am causing the sent message to check recent contacts (on my 8.5 client on the new domain) and probably seeing the user in my “Directory Server” which is set to the legacy server names.nsf . At least that is my guess and may lend some reasons for the above responses.

After we move I am (hoping ) this problem goeas away or else I will permanetly keep the recent contacts disabled.

Open to ideas since we are kind of in the middle of a migration.

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Subject: Lets get rid of “Recent Contacts.” - how to

Lets get rid of “Recent Contacts.”

Hopefully this will help anyone else ; The recent contacts in the personal address book seems to cause more trouble then what it was ever suppose to do.

Info below are snippets from the 8.0 forum using “recent contacts AND policy”

I am turning this thing off.

Subject: Dissabling recent contacts

Enable: “Do Not Automatically Add Names To Recent Contacts View” Option in Preferences - Contacts

The notes.ini variable is DisableDPABProcessing=1

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This option has not moved. It is still in Contacts Preferences. However, there are two things

that must be set, in order to see the “Disable recent contacts” option:

  1. You must be running the Standard Notes Client (not Basic Notes). Verify that you see an “Open”

button in the top left area of the Notes application. The Basic Notes client does not have this.

  1. Your names.nsf must have an R8.0 or higher design. Your Contacts application is usually

upgraded automatically when you launch an upgraded client. To ensure that you have the latest

design of the template, open names.nsf and select File/Application/Refresh Design.

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Subject: Use PostOpen in the mail database, in the Inbox folder . . . .

. . . and add this line:

Call session.SetEnvironmentVar(“DisableDPABProcessing”,“1”,True)

This will ensure that the ini variable is set this way every time the user opens their mail file . . .

I actually added this to the R8 Mail template in use and I use a desktop policy doc to upgrade the mail template when users upgrade their clients so the setting only gets rolled out to those users.

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These settings would all be useful, and while you’re waiting for them to appear as options in the desktop policy settings, you can make your own customizations to the Policy settings\Desktop Settings form to push them down.

For example, the Recent Contacts feature can be turned off with the Notes.ini setting DisableDPABProcessing=1 (see http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21267115 )

You could set this for new installs through an Installshield Transform, or push this down to existing clients by adding a $PrefDisableDPABProcessing field to the Policy settings\Desktop Settings form (or to $ClientPreferenceSubform).

There’s more info on custom policy settings in the Technote “Using a Desktop Policy to set notes.ini and Location parameters” http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21196837

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Subject: one important edit to your posting

  1. Your names.nsf must have an R8.0 R8.01 or higher design. Your Contacts application is usually upgraded automatically when you launch an upgraded client. To ensure that you have the latest

design of the template, open names.nsf and select File/Application/Refresh Design.

The reason for the above change is that, prior to 8.01, even if you deleted the Recent Contact, it would reappear in the view due to DPAB and backend processing.

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Subject: Yes, the design is based on 8.5. Thanks.