Hi Sunanda,
many thanks for your comments. 

I have Recent Contacts enabled in Contacts->Preferences. Also, I have setup my Location as "Notes Direct Dial-up" and I also tried as "Local area conection".

In my location settings, I have setup "Local only" for type ahead.

I want that the Notes Client 9.0.1 FP1 does not contact the Domino server for type ahead, but the Notes client is still contacting the server and that makes the GUI client freeze.

Is there a way that Notes client does not contact the server for type ahead? Thanks

Oliver

It seems that the connection to the Domino server for type ahead can not be avoided, anyone knows if this is a feature o a bug?

Tks

Many thanks for the info Brandon.

I read those notes.ini options but it seems to apply only to iNotes, the webmail client.

I need to solve this issue where the Notes Client in Windows and Mac contact the user's mail server every time the user press the coma button on his keyboard while entering email addresses in the To field of an email.

It would be nice to have a Notes client configured in a way that only contact the Domino server when replicating. But I have the problem that the Notes client contact the Domino server for every typeahead lookup.

Thanks
Oliver 

Bump? Is there a way to solve this issue? Thanks

From what i read seem you have local replica of the mail and addictional  remotelocal(yes remotelocal see below *) directory configured on the client.

Look in the preferences there is a field "Local address book" who contain somthing like  names.nsf; servername/certif!!filename.nsf  the last one is a reference to an address book on the server ( *even if defined as local is an dirty old trick)

http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/additional-address-books-and-sharing-contacts

Take also a look to the names.ini entry names=..... ( i don't remember if it work also on clients).

NOTE:

the fact you have this setting on all your PC make me think this can be set from polcy so a look on the policy and settings can be a good idea.

There is other way to have ona offline  corporate address book but you must configure it correctly (aka understand what your are doing) to avoid  problem like this.

Hi Luca,
many thanks for your answer.

I have already setup Notes like that:
- we have a local replica of the Domino (global) address book 
- we add all address book in the user preferences, separated by comas, using only the db name like names.nsf, domino-names.nsf, etc. This setup also create the names= in the notes.ini
- the Location is created as "notes dialup", "local area network"
- editing the location from the user address book the setups are:
  Mail file location: Local
  Recipient name type-ahead: local only
  Activate recipient name type-ahead: on each character
  Recipient name lookup: Exhaustively check all address books
  Mail addressing: Local only

Even that all these setting are enabled, every time you press the coma key after typing an internet email (example@example.net) a connection to the Domino server is established and is visible in Preferences, Notes Ports, Status. This problem is reproducible in Windows and Mac, using Notes 9.0.2 FP2 client.

This seems to be a bug in type ahead, since there is no way to work without connecting to the Domino server unless you setup a Location type of "no conection".

What else can I try?

Regards,
Oliver

Replicate the entire Domino Directory on the Client is not a good idea there is some sensible information on it, and can be very big if you have a lot of people.

There is other instrument for this like Directory Catalog.

Try to select the Domino Directory local replica on the workspace and try to open it  if your xACL is correctly configured probably you receive an error or you see only some part of the Directory.

Hi Luca,
So you are saying that after pressing the coma key, the Notes client tries to contact the domino server in order to check the directory catalog? I can try to use the local replica of the directory catalog but only if it will avoid the Notes client to contact the domino server every time I hit the coma key.

Can you even reproduce the issue I'm describing here? Try creating an email, type example@example.net and press the coma key, watch left in the status bad the ray icon indicating a connection to the domino server. 

Regards,
Oliver

I hope to get some insight into this problem this 2015