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Workspace Domino
Categories Administration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 1, 2022

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Disallow special characters for Group Name

When using special characters like Pound/Hash (#) Plus (+) Equal(=) As because they are known to cause problems in group names. Add input validation to disallow this characters.

It is mentioned here:

https://help.hcltechsw.com/domino/12.0.0/admin/conf_creatingagroup_t.html?hl=creating%2Cgroup


But since there was a case where mails where routed incorrectly (automatically) by the system since (nested) groups contained Pound/Hash(#) characters in their name. Main-Group name e.g. #Group1 contained nested sub-groups e.g. #NestedGroup#12, #NesteGroup#22, etc. and one of those nested Groups was non-existent, the mailrouter automatically chose the first group the the "#" character in the name and forwarded the emails automatically to those members.

Luckily the information was not sensitive...


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  • Guest
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    |     Mar 9, 2022

    I agree with the previous comment: It's the router's behaviour that needs to be fixed. Removing the ability to use special characters in group names would break many existing Domino installations.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 2, 2022

    Thanks for providing an example. Its the behaviour of the router that is wrong in this instance, not the use of # for group names (which are great for seperating users from groups in name picking dialogues). The behaviour of picking something that sounds like a name also appears in the mail client but the user can correct or remove the offending name at that time of sending. Maybe the router behaviour should be, if I cant get a direct fix on any of the names either a) discard them or b) NDR the whole message or c) a combo of the above, mail to the matched names and NDRs for the unmatched names.

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