On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Michael Hicks wrote: > I have a sneaking suspicion that Notes clients for platforms other than > Win32 and OS/2 never had much effort put into them because the Notes > folks expected OS/2 to run on every architecture that was important to > IBM. Don't quote me on that, though. Of course, since Linux is > basically fulfilling OS/2's promise of running on a large number of > architectures, I think IBM should really consider making a good Notes > client for Unix, or perhaps contracting with the Ximian folks to include > Notes support in Evolution. As much as linux users have been clamoring for it I doubt it will happen - there's been a lot of talk and suspicion over whether or not there will actually even be a Notes R6 or if it will be rolled into something else (perhaps websphere?)...I think that perhaps if effort was put into progressing Notes/Domino product development, you would also see effort put into a *nix client. Without that I doubt highly that anymore effort will be put into expanding the client platform. Especially since you can use Netscape, and various other email clients to read Notes Mail - especially if IMAP or POP3 are turned on at the Domino server. Inasmuch as Notes is compared to MS Exchange, they are two very very different products - Notes/Domino is a document database system and data store - oh yeah, and it does some email - Exchange took the opposite development path but using a relational database paradigm. That's why, for the most part, while you can get your mail to work on a linux platform using any number of work arounds, unless your Notes Developers (using the WinTel architecture) are sharp enough to make their apps web enabled to allow for the greatest access in a mixed platform environment, you lose pretty much all of the true functionality of Notes. On the same note, if your corporate standards are WinTel, then you're probably screwed anyway, so.... > Anyway, let me explain how I set up my Linux box at work to run in a > Notes environment. I have Sendmail running on my system, and I told the > Notes server to forward mail to `mike@[11.22.33.44]' (including the > square braces, since my computer doesn't have much for a hostname). I > set up IPChains so that only the Notes server can talk to Sendmail. > There are a few problems, of course. Yikes! > When Notes mail gets converted into ASCII, it is the ugliest thing on > the planet -- especially if there is a long chain of replies. I often > have to guess at the usernames of people I'm supposed to send mail to, > since there is no integration with the address books. Also, people I > send mail to will often try to send a reply directly to me at my_box (the > `Sender:' in a mail header), rather than to my real e-mail address (who > the message is `From:'). This might be a bug in the Notes client, but > I'm not sure.. It would probably explain why I don't get a whole lot of > mail at work. /me would absolutely love to work on developing a linux notes client *heavy sigh* now to find a place where I can have fun with Notes (since I know it fairly well) and *nix development environments all at the same time............. Liz Burke-Scovill -- Imagination is intelligence having fun... e-mail: kethry at winternet.com URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html