Hi there
first of all - I have used the openNTF ME for about 6 months now and it's great - you're all doing a good job…
Just two days ago I battled with this exact same issue and I found that Names fields actually support the format "LastName, FirstName". I assume that Author and Readers fields also support this, but I know that Text fields does not. The reason why I looked into this was the fact that we actually started receiving mails with reply address in this format - and it seems that more and more companies using this format.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Create a multi value NAMES field with "," as delimiter.
2) Open the form and type in the following "LastName1, FirstName1"<1@domain.com>, "LastName2, FirstName2"<2@domain.com>
3) Close the document.
4) The field now has two values "LastName1, FirstName1"<1@domain.com> and "LastName2, FirstName2"<2@domain.com>
According to the RFC882 this format is actually meant to support multiple users of the same mailbox (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html example A.1.3.)
I have spend a few days looking into the possibilities of having Notes/Domino parse a string and return the list of FRC822 e-mails but so far it seems that I have to write a parser myself. The project I'm working on is in java, so I might find some code that can do this, but as far as LotusScript or build in functionality in Notes I think there is no support for passing a string like "LastName1, FirstName1"<1@domain.com>, "LastName2, FirstName2"<2@domain.com>
If I find (or create my own parser) I'll be willing to share it with you guys.
regards
Mads