Domino 8.5 upgrade gotcha

There is a difference in the functionality of the Send method between Domino version 7.0.3 and Domino version 8.5.1.  In Domino 7.0.3, the following code:

Call document.Send(False, "First Person/OU=One/OU=2/O=3; Second Person/OU=Four/OU=Five/O=Six")

would send two e-mails - one to First Person  and another to Second Person.  Domino treated the ";" character as a name separator.

With Domino 8.5.1, this is no longer the case.  Domino no longer recognises the ";" as a name separator.  Instead, it will now attempt to send an e-mail to a person called "First Person/OU=One/OU=2/O=3; Second Person/OU=Four/OU=Five/O=Six" - and will obviously fail.

So, what is the correct code for Domino 8.5?  To achieve the same result as Domino 7.0, your code now needs to be written as follows:

Dim names(1) As String
names(0) = "First Person/OU=One/OU=2/O=3"
names(1) =  "Second Person/OU=Four/OU=Five/O=Six"
Call document.Send(False, names)

The Send method expects an array of strings as the second argument.  The problem is identical, regardless of whether you supply the recipient names as a parameter on the Send method or you add a SendTo field to the document.