Notes client unconsciously send mail to wrong address

Recently we are facing serious problem with lotus notes client 8.5.1 standard when sending internal group mail.

Some users have ‘Recent contacts’ which is automatically generated by notes client application. For example,

Name: Office

  Email: office@somecompany.com

Name: Network Depertment

  Email: nos@testcompany.com

Name: test user

  Email: testuser@yahoo.com

And also we have our own group with email, For example

Group Name: Office

        Email: Office@myoffice.com

Group Name: Network

        Email: Network@myoffice.com

Those users simply open new messages and send a mail to a group for send internal mail. For example

To: Network,

CC: boss@myoffice.com,

Bcc:

Subject: internal meeting at 3:00PM

(Body)

But after sending the mail, send item shows this mail accidently (automatically) send to outside user, for example

To: Network Depertment nos@testcompany.com

CC: boss@myoffice.com

Bcc:

Subject: internal meeting

(Body)

This mail actually intend for local network group but somehow notes client check the user local address book and find that address match with ‘Network Department nos@testcompany.com’ and send this mail to this wrong email address.

Only deleting this external email address from ‘Recent contacts’ temporary solve the problem but raise again when my users send any mail to this external address (Network Depertment nos@testcompany.com) because this address automatically added to recent item again. We have also a local group name office and facing the same problem.

How to solve this problem permanently? Please help.

Subject: Set Preferences

Disable Recent Contacts feature by going into File-Preferences-Contacts, and select the “Do not automatically add names to the Recent Contacts view”.

Make sure you empty the “Recent Contacts View” too.

Subject: There Is A Technote On This

Hi Khandakar,

I worked on an issue that I believe is the same as this. I worked on this for quite some time - it took a lot of testing until I finally got to the bottom of it and I wrote a Technote on it, which I included a link to below.

I recommend opening a PMR with IBM Support and having them add it to the weight of SPR#: RJAS7JASWM - “E-mails Sent To A Group With A Nested Group As A Member Resolves To Local Contact And Not Nested Group” - which I also wrote - so that it adds weight to this issue in hopes that it may be addressed in a later release.

What I found as a workaround is to change the “Recipient Name Lookup” to “Exhaustively Check All Address Books”, which results in users being prompted with the “Ambiguous Name” Dialog box since the name is not unique.

Lotus Software Knowledge Base Document

Title: Enabling “Stop after first match” in Location document forces nested group name to resolve against personal Address Book
Doc #: 1319760
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21319760

I hope this information helps! Please let me know if you have any questions - I tend to check back in the Forums often.

Regards,

-Bob

Subject: RE: There Is A Technote On This

Many Thank you.