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we have a Domino server with one mail.box database. When a user tries to send a message to a local user group the server returns an error:

Field is too large (32k) or views column & selection formulas 
are too large: SERVERNAME mail.box.

The group in question contains 940 names. If I write them into a text file in canonical format it is ~24KB so not more than 32KB. The message itself contains some short text and a document link which points to a PDF file which is however more than 32KB in size. If I split the names into two separate groups and I send the same message using these two groups as the recipients the server sends the message withou any error.

Do you have any experience on this issue?

Dave M
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Your group is too large. Split into two groups of less than 15K, and create a master group that lists the two groups. There's a lot of confusion over the limits in Notes and Domino. The reality is that there are multiple limits, including the text field size limit and summary buffer size limit - (how much you can store, versus how much you can look up in a view. Group resolution for addressing relies on a view lookup, so the summary buffer limit applies, and that's 15K.

Documentation on this stuff is inconsistent, and error messages are often unhelpful. Here's a link to a doc that has collected a lot of information about different limits in Notes and Domino, based on both official info and community experience.

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