[mcbane666]

My company just switched to using lotus notes, i hate it.
all my other accounts i get through apples MAIL (I like this better than T-Bird) is there anyway to get MAIL to retrieve from lotus notes?

[d00d]

If your administrator has turned on IMAP access, you can use that.

[mcbane666]

where can i find the info i need to fill in the fields in MAIL

[Tom_Diola]

In the long run you probably should just use Lotus Notes. If you can get a version that runs and is supported on the Mac then I think eventually you'll get used to it. Lotus has had a checkered past - long while ago BMI (spelled backwards) bought Lotus and then forced Lotus to do email - whereas Lotus was a database management system originally. When you start to export the Lotus Notes stuff to your own mail system you'll start to lose things not to mention all the other stuff that comes along with Lotus e.g. all those meeting notices and stuff like that. I agree Lotus is hardly useable but it does work and if you have a version that works on the Mac that's definitely a plus. Anyway that's my .02.

[d00d]

I would ask your system administrator.

[mcbane666]

i asked my administrator, and he told me that sense i can get them with my browser there is no need to use my email client, I only get email, we don't use any of the other features.

[heywardjr]

Your company's Lotus Domino Administrator can turn on the integrated POP or IMAP server to provide email to your Apple Mail application that way. That is done all the time by many customers. But your administrator controls that and so you are dependent on them to provide access. If you do have access, then all you have to do is go to the Notes help menu and type in POP or IMAP and instructions are there. You have to create the account document in the Notes Address Book so Notes knows how to connect with the right credentials. You then specify how often you want to replicate mail. If you don't have access via that method you can use the Safari browser or Firefox browser to access Domino Web Access to use mail directly on the server.

[heywardjr]

Lotus Notes is available for the Mac OS for Tiger as Notes 7.02 or Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta for Leopard can be downloaded from the www.lotus.com beta site. Version 8.5 is due for gold release by end of this year. Many people are using 8.5 beta in production now for several months with very good results.

To incorrect history about Lotus Notes posted in this thread here is the truth:

Lotus Development Corporation was the inventor of cc:Mail which gained 80%+ market share in the 1980's in most of the world. It was the leading email solution for most corporations and government agencies. In the 90's Lotus acquired Lotus Notes from Ray Ozzie's development company and has over 140 million seats throughout the world. Lotus has around a 43% market share of the corporate/government email collaboration market with Microsoft Exchange/Outlook with a 47% share. Lotus has gained market share in the last three years and has doubled it's business partners in that time as well. Lotus was acquired by IBM in 1995 and has invested billions of dollars in the technology. Lotus Domino and Notes is the premier collaboration platform that supports Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, AIX, and many other operating system platforms. Gartner just released a messaging report and Notes was listed as one of the best in the world.

Lotus Notes is the client and Domino the server. Lotus Notes is the world's largest Public Key Infrastructure for secure email and collaboration. Lotus Notes is much more than email but email was always a part of the solution from version 1 to the current 8.02 and soon 8.5. Domino/Notes applications are used by millions of people and are running many critical applications throughout the world. These applications are contained in highly secure databases in the .NSF database. Many customers report running their business on Lotus Notes and would have a hard time duplicating it's functions with anything else. Version 8.5 is based on open source Eclipse and the new mail interface can easily be configured by the user to look almost exactly like MS Outlook if you want that.

If you have a question, please contact me at hdrummon@us.ibm.com. I am an IBM employee in the Lotus software brand and have been with Lotus for 17 years.

[mfinocchiaro]

I will soon be starting work at IBM and wanted to buy a new iPhone 3G so my related question: is there an iPhone Notes client or Mail plugin?

Thanks,

michael.finocchiaro@gmail.com