LotusScript, Send method and Ambiguous Names

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Subject: LotusScript, Send method and Ambiguous Names

Feedback Type: Problem

Product Area: Notes Client

Technical Area: Application Development

Platform: Windows

Release: 8.5.1

Reproducible: Unknown

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.

thank you very much for reading this.

Feedback number WEBB89GQQB created by ~Mary Dwoamar on 09/20/2010

Status: Open
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