Be aware of Soundex
Daniel Nashed – 7 February 2019 13:54:49
We just ran into an issue where I user was removed from the Domino directory and the server had setup Fullname than local part for Mail lookup configured. What happened is that the wrong user got the e-mail!
@Soundex
Returns the Soundex (the Lotus Notes phonetic speller) code for the specified string.
The phonetic name can result in the same short "hash" value for multiple names. There are a lot of collisions even for names that are not the same!.
I can only recommend to stay away from Fullname than Local Part for mail lookups. But if you can't you should be aware of @Soundex.
@soundex ("nsh@nashcom.de") for example returns N200.
I opened a support ticket and they pointed me to the following AHA entry. https://domino.ideas.aha.io/ideas/DOMINO-I-548
IMHO this feature request to allow Soundex to be completely disabled makes a lot of sense!
-- Daniel
- Comments [4]
1Rainer 07.02.2019 19:32:48 Be aware of Soundex
Hi Daniel,
I ran into the same problem some time ago:
https://blogbyrainer.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/addressing-users-in-ibm-notes/
I opened a case and received the information that it´s working as designed. But to be honest >> I'm with you to disable this "feature" ;-)
Best regards, Rainer
2Frankie Hui 12.02.2019 1:30:53 Be aware of Soundex
I have raised a change request to IBM to disable/remove @soundex and I noticed that you (Daniel) have commented & voted as well, thx! If others are keen to have this disabled, kindly vote to get the ball rolling.
3Richard Schwartz 19.02.2019 18:30:01 Be aware of Soundex
Soundex should Never, Ever, Ever be used for routing email! It should be eliminated from all views used by the router.
4Daniel Nashed 21.02.2019 16:01:58 Be aware of Soundex
@Richard, I agree at least 100% !!!
I will bring this up next week at the factory tour.
-- Daniel