July 8th, 2005
Those Pesky Recertification E-mails
Problem: You
still have your user certificates expiring every 2 years, and even if you
try to re-certify them using your handy expiration date view in your Directory
(it's there - under the Certificates View) users get a pop-up telling
them that they need to press a button to send an email. So they press
the button and VOILA!, there's a blank 'To:' field. What to do?
Solution: I've seen several
different ideas of how to handle this, but there's one sure-fire way to
pre-fill that field - it was designed for this purpose. Find the
Certificates view in your Domino Directory, and open any of the Notes certificates
listed there. Over on the Contact Information tab, there's an innocent
looking field called Other mail address.
That field allows you to mail those requests to someone other than the
administrator or group that owns the Directory. In fact since there's
one per certifier, you can distribute the workload. This field is
also used to pre-fill the requests that can be generated in the User Security
interface in Notes 6.
Funny thing is, this isn't a secret. It's been there since Domino
5.0.9 and was in the Release Notes for that version. The Technote
was only published last December. It's Technote 1085181 and can be
found here.
So - did you know this? If so - how did you find out? I really
want to know.
