Lotus Notes allows mail to be sent to a local contact that has no email address listed
Technote (troubleshooting)
Problem
In Lotus Notes, if you create a contact that has no email address in your Person Address Book and then attempt to send an email to this person, the client will allow this message to be sent out. This is undesired behavior for multiple reasons:
- Domino will most likely append a suffix to this name (dependent on the server configuration) and attempt to route the message, which will almost certainly result in a delivery failure report.
- Despite the fact that type-ahead will appear differently depending on whether or not an email address is specified for a local contact, an end user cannot be expected to be cognizant of this.
--> Screenshot of a personal address book contact with no email address specified:
--> Screenshot of a personal address book contact with an email address specified:
Resolving the problem
This issue has been reported to development under Software Problem Report (SPR) ALAS7W7V2G, and has been indirectly fixed in 8.5.1.
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