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Chris Toohey (Dominoguru) and I tested something last night... (updated 2:30pm)


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UPDATE : After much testing off and on throughout the day today, I updated the index, sent emails from accounts not on the distribution list and it seemed to work fine.  Terribly bizarre that sending from a name on the list only then went to the first listed address, that or the updating of the index on the directory did it.

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I happened to be on-line when I got a ping from Chris about SMTP and groups containing only Internet addresses.  He was testing on Domino 5 I believe and wondered if I had seen it before.  We even set the test on a Domino 6.5 server to the same result....thanks for playing.  Now you ask, what the heck was the test that Chris and Chris did at 11pm at night for gosh sakes??

  • We created a group in the main Domino Directory containing 3 Internet addresses only.  There is no spaces in the group name
  • I set the group to both Mail-only and multipurpose
  • We sent an email in and Domino would only deliver to the first address listed
  • If we reordered the list, the same result
  • semi-colons, hard returns for the list, no matter
  • If I mail from inside Domino to just the group name, all three get it.

I have proceeded to test this from different outside sources just for grins to no avail.  Searches of KB and the public forum don't show anything that I found and a thorough scrubbing of a configuration document turned up no clues.  Hmmmmmmmm