DIRECTORY SERVICES

Directory assistance and Notes mail addressing
You can set up directory assistance on IBM® Lotus® Notes® users' mail servers or directory servers to enable the users to address mail easily to users in a directory that is not the Domino Directory for their IBM® Lotus® Domino® domain. To enable a directory to be used for Notes mail addressing, on the Basic tab of the Directory Assistance document for the directory, next to "Make this domain available to," select "Notes clients and Internet Authentication/Authorization."

Notes mail addressing using a Domino Directory or Extended Directory Catalog

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:


The Router also uses directory assistance when routing mail.

For more information on Location documents, see Notes 8 Help.

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.

Note A server can always use a Domino directory in the directory assistance database for Notes mail addressing if the domain specified for the directory is the same domain as the primary domain for the server; this is true regardless if you select "Make this domain available to: Notes clients and Internet Authentication/Authorization."

Notes mail addressing using a remote LDAP directory

To enable Notes users to address mail easily to users registered in a remote LDAP directory, you can set up directory assistance for the directory on the users' mail servers or directory servers. Then, a Notes user can press F9 to resolve an address for a name from the LDAP directory entered in an addressing field of a Notes message. If the 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. A Notes client doesn't use type-ahead addressing to find names in a remote LDAP directory, and Notes users can't use the "Select Addresses" dialog box to browse and select names from a remote LDAP directory.

LDAP accounts compared to directory assistance for Notes mail addressing using a remote LDAP directory
An IBM® Lotus® 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 8 Help.

Choosing a preferred mail format for Notes mail addressing using a remote LDAP directory
If you set up directory assistance so that Notes users can address mail to users in a remote LDAP directory, use the "Preferred mail format" option 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:


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 an IBM® Lotus® Domino® Directory.

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