Groups does not work

Hi all,

I know plain well what a pain in the ass is when a newbie asks a
simple question that is answered in every forum and every manual, and
they did not bother to make a googling. But I am new to Lotus, I have
a problem, I searched everywhere, I asked in every forum and every
list I found, and nobody answers. It's probably because it's so
simple, they do not bother but, what can I do?


My problem is this: I am supposed so send a text with 2 attachments
(a
doc file and a xls file) to several email addresses every day. The
text is one page and a half long, and the text files contain the same
text. I installed Lotus, configured it to work with GMail (I can
check
email, send and receive with CC and BCC, with and without
attachments,
with no problems) and I go to Groups. I create a group with the email
addresses, let's call it "MyList", then I open a new email message,
prepare everything, I go to the BCC field, type or select MyList, and
it tells me it cannot find the path to server. I have to write every
address to send it properly, which is awful. In my very small
knowledge of Lotus, I think it understands "Mylist" as a wrong email
address or a worker connected to a Lotus server, while it is only
connected to Gmail and I am the only one.


Can you help me to solve this issue? I'm using Lotus 8.0 on XP Pro
SP2.

"IgRussell" wrote in message
news:2a273955-a65f-4463-b26c-26620c3d9d7f-at-x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I know plain well what a pain in the ass is when a newbie asks a
> simple question that is answered in every forum and every manual, and
> they did not bother to make a googling. But I am new to Lotus, I have
> a problem, I searched everywhere, I asked in every forum and every
> list I found, and nobody answers. It's probably because it's so
> simple, they do not bother but, what can I do?
>
>
> My problem is this: I am supposed so send a text with 2 attachments
> (a
> doc file and a xls file) to several email addresses every day. The
> text is one page and a half long, and the text files contain the same
> text. I installed Lotus, configured it to work with GMail (I can
> check
> email, send and receive with CC and BCC, with and without
> attachments,
> with no problems) and I go to Groups. I create a group with the email
> addresses, let's call it "MyList", then I open a new email message,
> prepare everything, I go to the BCC field, type or select MyList, and
> it tells me it cannot find the path to server. I have to write every
> address to send it properly, which is awful. In my very small
> knowledge of Lotus, I think it understands "Mylist" as a wrong email
> address or a worker connected to a Lotus server, while it is only
> connected to Gmail and I am the only one.
>
>
> Can you help me to solve this issue? I'm using Lotus 8.0 on XP Pro
> SP2.

Sounds like it is looking for the NAB (Name and Address Book) on the
server, but from your description, it does not sound like you use a
server. You may want to look at your location settings, and also check
where the name lookup is done. Set it to "Local, then server" or
something like that.

Did you ask at developerWorks (formerly Notes.net)?
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/community/

/Karl

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Dear Karl,

thank you very, very much for your answer; yes, I asked there too,

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum...e?OpenDocument

and in many other places, but no luck. Everything is set to local (no
server) but no luck. It's terrible because I suggested using Lotus
instead of Outlook and now I cannot make it work even for this. But
Lotus would be much more hekpful for this to me. I do not know what to
do.

Ignacio

Dear Karl,

SOLVED!!!! You gave me the clue. The trick is that when you tell it
"Local, then server", it still behaves as the "server" option. You
have to use the "Local only" option, which is hidden in the popup
menu. It is solved, now it is working seamless. Thank you very much.

Ignacio


On Jul 17, 1:17*am, IgRussell wrote:
> Dear Karl,
>
> thank you very, very much for your answer; yes, I asked there too,
>
> http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum...dWeb/515dab665...
>
> and in many other places, but no luck. Everything is set to local (no
> server) but no luck. It's terrible because I suggested using Lotus
> instead of Outlook and now I cannot make it work even for this. But
> Lotus would be much more hekpful for this to me. I do not know what to
> do.
>
> Ignacio

"IgRussell" wrote in message
news:cf1f65ef-a9c9-4cfb-a64a-754f09067c76-at-59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Dear Karl,
>
> SOLVED!!!! You gave me the clue. The trick is that when you tell it
> "Local, then server", it still behaves as the "server" option. You
> have to use the "Local only" option, which is hidden in the popup
> menu. It is solved, now it is working seamless. Thank you very much.
>
> Ignacio

I am glad you got it to work, and thanks for posting the solution here,
so others can see it in the future.

/Karl