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    Why there is a "Copy to Personal Address book" button in Domino Directory

    Vladislav Tatarincev  16 March 2011 16:12:51
    Many customers ask, WHEN "Recent contacts" will work fine. Recent contacts is a cool feature, but I find it is quite unpredictable and unstable.
    I am on 8.5.3 CODE DROP 3 and found it is still not working. I hope it will be fixed in gold release.

    One more thing that makes a lot of helpdesk tickets is Person record copied from Domino Directory to Local Address Book.  I understand Why it there, but ..
    It works fine until rename, or domain change or some modifications are done to Person document in server names.nsf. Local record is outdated, and this causes issues....

    as well Send Upgrade notification... is it still needed? Domino 7.x is desupported on 30.04.2011, so SmartUpgrade should be used.
    I with there is a button "Open Mailfile" not only in person document but also in "Mail-in" document..

    May be it is time to do revision?
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    1Keith Taylor  16/03/2011 18:57:55  Why there is a Copy to Personal Address book button in Domino Directory

    I instruct users to use this button to copy personnel to their local address books if they wish to have them local. The benefit here is that the public key for the contact gets copied into the address book making S/MIME encryption work properly.

    2Nick  17/03/2011 5:14:43  Why there is a Copy to Personal Address book button in Domino Directory

    Im not really a fan of users copying names into their personal addressbook. As you said renames cause a hell of amount of confusion. With recent contacts we were finding that even resources were being added to the list as well as groups! This caused us a few headaches when we relocated offices and changed the names of a large number of groups and resources. Recent contacts should not record internal addresses of any kind in my opinion.

    3Giannandrea  19/03/2011 10:35:24  "when" Recnet Contacts will work

    It "seems" that many bugs of "Recent Contacts" has been fixed in 8.5.2 FP2 & 8.5.3:

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    The 8.5.2 FP2 should be released soon because on notes.net it's mentioned that the Gold build is completed.

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    4Giannandrea  26/03/2011 19:41:47  Why there is a Copy to Personal Address book button in Domino Directory

    8.5.2 FP2 is out.

    I've installed it and i've tried it ... I've used the setting: (Only add names from e-mails I send)

    And from the first tests ... this time it "seems" working !

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