Jan Schulz

Recent contacts were a PITA when the location settings "first local, then server" and "stop after first match" are enabled:

• Receive a mail from 'sales@otherorg.com', have your own 'sale' group in NAB. Send a mail to 'sales' and it will go out to 'sales@otherorg.com'. Fun (see Comment 9 here). Happens even when replying to such a mail...
  
• Have a group called "XY" and a group caled "XY group". You get a Mail to "XY group". You can't send a mail to "XY" anymore, every time it will be (quietly) resolved to 'XY group". Even more fun...

Both could have security implications: You more or less don't notice that the names are expanded and it happens after you press send. And you probably don't want internal mails to sales ending up at the competitions site. Or sensitive mails to "XY" at maybe much bigger group.

Enabling exhaustive lookup will result in other errors (group is available two times -> doc.send will fail!. Also the user will get a strange picklist, where he must choose between the two addresses) or will not resolve the issue when the user is offline.

This seems to fixed as of 8.5.1 FP1:

SPR# MCMA7VPKUN - When a group with the same name exists in the local and server replicas, and was also in recent contacts, the recent contacts version was used and the ambiguous dialog box was not displayed. This problem has been fixed in 8.5.1 FP1 and was a regression introduced in 8.0.

Lets hope for the best... downloading right now...

You might also vote for this ideajam entry: notes.ini variable to exclude internal NotesNames from Recent Contacts, which is another problem with recent contacts.