lotus-notes

What is the best way and recommended practices for interacting with Lotus Notes from C#

In particular, I have to extract all the messages and attachments from Lotus Notes files in the fastest and most reliable way. Another point that may be relevant is that I need to do this from a secondary thread. Edit Thanks for the answers - both of which are good. I should provide more background information. We currently have a Wi...

Automated processing of an Email in Java

Just got a request from my boss for an application I'm working on. Basically we're getting an email address setup for an external client to submit excel files to. What I need is a way to automatically pick up any email sent to this address, so I can take the attachment, process it and save it to a folder. Any information of even where...

Connecting Outlook 2007 to Domino 6.5 ?

Outlook (2007 now) is my favorite mail client and I would like to keep using it for both private and work emails. But with my new work, I discovered (with horror) that we have to use Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes 6.5 as client. Is it possible to get my Lotus mails inside Outlook while maintaining my private POP mails in their existing PS...

how to change default delete date in lotus notes for emails?

I am using Lotus Notes as my email client, and how to change the defailt email delete date to something new so my older emails don't get deleted after pre-defined date? ...

How do you add a button to the email message window toolbar in Lotus Notes 8.5+ ?

A coworker has been struggling with this problem. The desired result is an installable plugin for Notes that will add a button emails with attachments that will let users save the attachment to a document management system. Finding documentation on doing this for Notes has been an uphill battle to say the least. Writing the actual jav...

Any other IDEs for Lotus Notes other than Domino Designer?

Are there any other IDEs worth my time for Lotus Notes development? We're doing mostly LotusScript development and would kill for features of Eclipse or Visual Studio, like "Show Declaration". I know there's an Eclipse plugin for Java development in Notes, but seems like it only does Java, and we have too many pieces of legacy code in Lo...

What is the difference between CouchDB and Lotus Notes?

I was looking into the possibility of using CouchDB. I heard that it was similar to Lotus Notes which everyone loves to hate. Is this true? ...

Update a list element with Lotus Formula

I am trying to update an element in a list with Lotus Formula. I thought you would do it like this: x := "0":"0":"0"; x[1] := "1"; But when I try to save I get the following error: := must be immediately preceded by a field or variable name ...

How can I do an indexOf() in Lotus Notes Formula language (@ commands)?

I can't find this anywhere in the Domino Designer help. It seems so straightforward! All I need to do is find the position of a character in a string. ...

What causes error 4063 - Database ...databasename... has not been opened yet

I have an scheduled agent that is trying to access a database on another server. When it runs I get an error 4063 - Database ...databasename... has not been opened yet. The servers is listed in the ACL as manager. What are some other possible causes for this errors? ...

How can I export a list of databases resident on a given Domino server?

I have a Lotus Domino server with a truly astounding number of Domino databases on it, arranged in various folders. Is there some means of exporting a list of all these databases, with their titles and creators' names, in a spreadsheet format of some kind? I have the Domino Admin and Domino Designer software, and I have or can get what...

Best practices for version control for Lotus Notes/Domino development

The title says it all - please share how you do version control for Lotus Notes/Domino development. I want to put in our SVN repository all the scripts, views, custom forms, script libraries, etc. Semi-automated methods are accepted as well (i.e. if I find a way to get all the event scripts for a form in one file, and to be able to pla...

C#, Lotus Interop: Getting Message Information

I'm using Interop.Domino.dll to retrieve E-mails from a Lotus "Database" (Term used loosely). I'm having some difficulty in retrieving certain fields and wonder how to do this properly. I've been using NotesDocument.GetFirstItem to retrieve Subject, From and Body. My issues in this regard are thus: How do I retrieve Reply-To address...

Lotus Notes, ID files, and how things are changing in new versions (8 and up).

For those who are not aware, Lotus Notes is a cool system, which has very powerful database replication abilities, and very strong certificate management and signing. However that strong certificate usage is itself one of Notes's downfalls. When you log in to Lotus Notes via a Notes client, the password you use is not stored anywhere...

Programmatic Creation of a Notes Link Hotspot (URL)

Earlier versions of the Notes client would automatically turn a sent URL into a clickable link for the recipient (regardless of mail client) but with 6.5 (and presumably later) this no longer happens; that is, the URL is sent as plain text. The Notes UI allows it to be done via the Create->Hotspot->Link Hotspot menu but this gets tedious...

How can I programmatically determine the creator of a Domino database?

I'm using the built-in Domain Catalog database to list all the databases on a particular Domino server. I'm creating a custom view to show certain information about each database. What I'd like to have is a column that displays the creator of each database. However, if the Domain Catalog is keeping track of this information, I can't find...

Enable/disable editing of a form field from code

Hi I'm not a Notes programmer, however, for my sins, have been working on some Notes features for an in-house project recently. I need to enable/disable editing of a field depending on circumstances. It seems to me to be a fairly standard feature, I need, but I can't find any information on how to do this anywhere. In form setup (and o...

Can I add x-headers to a Lotus Notes email message without COM?

Trying to add a custom header item to a Lotus Notes email item, from the context of a Notes Client Extension before the mail is sent from the Lotus Notes client app. Is this possible? I'm looking along the lines of using something in the NSFItemSetText family of functions if at all possible, as opposed to the lotus script object model ...

Output from a Java agent in Lotus Notes to the client status bar?

Does anybody know a way to get the behaviour of LotusScript print in a Lotus Notes Java agent, i.e. displaying the output on the client status bar? ...

Lotus Notes Authentication

Hi. I want to setup Lotus Notes on my laptop to mess around with it. I am trying to setup my email, but my email through verizon.net requires authentication. I have it setup in Outlook 07, but Outlook does not have support for Databasing. Does anyone know how to setup authentication for outgoing email in Lotus Notes, let alone is it ...