Placing memo directly in mail.box

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I have a problem with a LS agent which sends a notification e-mail. Users who have the mail preference for exhaustive directory lookup enabled are receiving the 4295 error (ambiguous name).To get around this problem I am trying to place the notification message directly in the server mail.box DB. The code below works on my local PC, but not on the server. I have run the code through the debugger and do not receive any errors. I have manager ACL rights on mail.box.

'<> values are for demonstration

Dim session As New NotesSession

Dim doc As NotesDocument

Dim db As New NotesDatabase( "", "" )

Call db.Open( "<Server Name>", "mail.box" )



On Error Goto Errhandle

If db.IsOpen Then

	Set doc = New NotesDocument ( db )

	doc.Form = "Memo"

	doc.SendTo="<recipient name>"

	doc.From = "<Test Agent>"

	doc.Subject=" Testing mail agent"

	doc.Body="test"

	Call doc.Save( True, True )

	

End If 

Exit Sub
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Subject: Placing memo directly in mail.box

Directly writing documents to the mail.box should be avoided. Why don’t you fix the actual problem? If the string you’re using as the SendTo value is ambiguous at the client, do you think it will be less so to the server router? What happens if it’s not?

I’d clean up the SendTo value so that it explicitly names the intended recipient (by specifying the domain perhaps?) rather than try to subvert the system.

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Subject: RE: Placing memo directly in mail.box

What I really need is to be able to call the ambiguous name dialog box and let the user select the correct name. I had searched the forum, found the same problem reported many times and the consensus seems to be to use the direct to mail.box trick (even though it is bad practice). The issue seems to be that some users have ancient local copies/replicas of the NAB and/or they have entered names in the personal NAB that match names in the corporate NAB.

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Subject: RE: Placing memo directly in mail.box

You could use evaluate with @namelookup([EXHAUSTIVE]) on the names in the SendTo list and present the possible results to the user as a promptlist. This would mimic the ambiguous name dialog.

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Subject: RE: Placing memo directly in mail.box

Thanks for the suggestions

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Subject: RE: Placing memo directly in mail.box

As Jerry suggests, adding your mail domain to the end of the recipient’s name should supress the error and allow the mail to be sent to mail.box, essentially the same result you would achieve by doing it programatically.

doc.SendTo = “John Doe@ACME” or

doc.SendTo = & “@ACME”

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Subject: Placing memo directly in mail.box

Hi Frank,

to get your script working when sending mails directly into the mail.box of the server you need some more fields.

These fields are needed for every mail you send.

sendto

inetsendto

from

inetfrom

posteddate (now)

copyto (optional)

inetcopyto (optional)

blindcopyto (optional)

inetcopyto (optional)

Subject (optional)

Body (optional)

recipients (MANDATORY FIELD ! all names used in all fields … sendto: copyto: blindcopyto)

Hope this helps !

regards,

Peter