MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Checking names for invalid characters
The only characters supported by Lotus Notes for registered user names are: letters (including those with accents and other diacritical marks from the ISO Latin1 character set), numbers, ampersand, apostrophe, hyphen, period, space, and underscore. A cc:Mail name may contain characters that are not valid for use in a Notes name. If you try to register a cc:Mail user whose name contains other characters, the registration process generates an error.

Note These character restrictions apply only to the primary names for registered Lotus Notes users. Lotus Notes permits the use of invalid characters in the names in Person documents for unregistered users, such as those that the cc:Mail MTA adds to the Domino Directory, as well as in secondary user names.

Although you can remove invalid characters by editing names in the registration queue after you import the cc:Mail directory, you may want to edit names before migration, using the administrative tool for your cc:Mail post office.

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