UPGRADING TO LOTUS NOTES 6 AND LOTUS DOMINO 6

Internet mail addresses in Lotus Domino 6
When looking up an address for Internet mail in the Domino Directory in Lotus Domino 6, Lotus Domino checks the $Users view for an exclusive match of the address. If it finds the complete Internet address of the recipient (for example, jdoe@acme.com) in either the Short name or Internet Address field, Lotus Domino delivers the message to the mail file of that person. Lotus Domino also delivers messages based on a match of the local part of the address (for example, jane_doe) with any of the fields in the Person document. For example, if the message is addressed to jane_doe@acme.com, and Lotus Domino finds a Person document with the entry "Jane Doe" in the User Name field, Lotus Domino delivers the message to Jane Doe's mail file.

Note Lotus Domino converts double underscores (__) into underscores, underscores into spaces, and periods into spaces. In this example, jane_doe would become jane doe. The lookup is not case-sensitive -- jane doe matches with the entry Jane Doe in a Person document.

Lotus Domino's exhaustive lookup in $Users ensures that any address generated by the Domino 4.6 MTA for a user in your directory is located properly. While you can use the Internet Address field in the Domino 6 Person document and the tool that populates this field to standardize Internet addresses in your organization to provide a single place for locating and changing Internet addresses, this step is optional -- Lotus Domino does not distinguish between Domino 4.6 and Domino 6 addressing and utilizes both equally well.

For more information on the tool that populates the Internet Address field in Person documents, see the topic Populating the Internet Address field in Person documents..

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