Using replica ID in group name

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Mail file design based on 6.5.1, Domino server 7.0.3 on Solaris

I’m developing a universal script that can be used in any db. This script will send out alerts to groups of people who are responsible for a particular db. To make things easy I want to use the db replica ID to build the group names for receiving e-mail. I preface the replica ID with a dollar sign (we have lots of other groups that are setup this way and they work fine). So when a db sends an alert it goes to the group $. When I address a msg to the group it does resolve the group name, if I type in $8 it gives me the first group it finds, but then if I press f9 the group disappears from the memo. Also, if I add our domain to the end the group name it remains in the to field but when I send the memo there is no error and nothing shows up on the console indicating that an e-mail was even sent. Anyone else have any experience with this?

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Subject: Using replica ID in group name

Paul,

How are your other “$” groups named? Is it possible that the issue is with having all numeric values in the group name following the “$”? If so, try adding another character (which should not change your 'ease of use" implementation), and also make sure to remove the “:” after the 8th character, such as

“$DB” + @ReplaceSubstring(@ReplicaID; “:”; “”)

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Subject: RE: Using replica ID in group name

The group name is like $876598762343A987. Other groups have numbers in them and work fine. I also tried adding text to the end and still no good. I’ll keep playing with it.