Domino aliases cause problems in multi-domain scenarios

Article: 100040310
Last Published: 2023-04-14
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Product(s): Veritas Alta Archiving, Veritas Alta eDiscovery

Description

When using CloudLink to sync Domino properties, there are no options as to which properties are synced. We create aliases (alternate names in the [EmailAcct] table) based on several properties we find, like common name.  In particular, from the primary SMTP email address, we appear to take local-part (the portion left of the @), and create an alias from this.

This causes problems if a customer is archiving across multiple domains, as that alias cannot be assumed to be unique. 

Consider a company archiving from a.domain.com and b.domain.com.  They have an archiving user, bob@a.domain.com.  CloudLink assigns the local-part, "bob", as an alias for this user.  Now mail arrives for a different user (not in Veritas Alta Archiving), bob@b.domain.com.  Since we can't resolve the SMTP address, we try matching various aliases, and since the local-part matches the existing alias bob, we assign the mail to user bob@a.domain.com, rather than assigning it to Unassigned Legacy.

Veritas Corporation has acknowledged that the above-mentioned issue is present in the version(s) of the product(s) referenced in this article.

 

This issue is currently under investigation by Veritas Corporation. Pending the outcome of the investigation, this issue may be resolved by way of a cumulative hotfix or service pack in the current or future versions of the software. However, this particular issue is not currently scheduled for any release. If you feel this issue has a direct business impact for you and your continued use of the product, please contact your Veritas Sales representative or the Veritas Sales group to discuss these concerns. For information on how to contact Veritas Sales, please see http://www.veritas.com.

References

JIRA : CFT-561

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