Directory assistance and Notes® mail addressing

To enable Notes® users to address mail easily to Notes® users registered in a secondary Domino® Directory or to users that have entries aggregated into an Extended Directory Catalog, you can set up directory assistance for the directory on the users' mail servers or directory servers. Then, a Notes® user can:

• Use the Select Addresses dialog to browse and select names from the directory, if the Mail file location field in the active Location document is set to On server.
• Enter a name of a user or group from the directory and have type-ahead use directory assistance to find a matching name if the Recipient name type-ahead field in the user's active Location document is set to Local then server.
• Press F9 to resolve the address of a user name from the directory; if the Notes® user doesn't resolve the address, either the Notes® client uses directory assistance to resolve the address when the user sends the mail or, if the client doesn't resolve the address, the Router uses directory assistance to resolve the address.

The Router also uses directory assistance when routing mail.

Note that if a Notes® user uses a local mobile directory catalog that aggregates secondary Domino® Directories, name and address lookups of users in a secondary Domino® Directory can occur locally on the client without the use of directory assistance. Note that type-ahead addressing never extends to a server on a Notes® client set up to use a mobile directory catalog.

A Notes® client can use an LDAP account in Contacts to connect directly to a remote LDAP directory server, without using directory assistance. Using an LDAP account, a Notes® user can search for addresses in a remote LDAP directory using LDAP-style search queries.

You might want to use directory assistance rather than LDAP Accounts to avoid having to maintain the LDAP Accounts, in case the remote LDAP directory configuration changes in some way.

For more information on creating accounts in Contacts, see Notes® Help.

If you set up directory assistance so that Notes® users can address mail to users in a remote LDAP directory, use the Preferred mail formatoption on the LDAP tab of the Directory Assistance document for the LDAP directory to select the format of the mail address for Notes® clients to use:

• Keep the default selection, Internet Mail Address, to use the Internet mail format, for example, jdoe@acme.com, which is the format used in previous releases.
• Select Notes Mail Address to use Notes-style addressing, for example, John Doe/Renovations@Renovations.

If you select Notes Mail Address, user entries in the remote LDAP directory must have values for the mailDomain attribute. Typically the Notes Mail Address option is used only in some cases if the remote LDAP directory is a Domino® Directory.