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• Lotus Notes 8.5 Install

Hi there, After a long time, I finally managed to persuade my manager to let me use the G4 PowerMac, which is sitting in the company’s testing Laboratories, for my daily tasks. I can get rid of the dell laptop and enjoy the Mac benefits. It seems that I have a little problem though. The company uses Lotus notes as its primary software for communications. I won't be able to use it on the Mac.

Any suggestions of compatible applications or even on how I could access the lotus server through the Mac osx default email application? Thanks in advance. I am not sure what version of lotus notes you are refering to, but maybe this will help. A qoute from their site - With the release of IBM Lotus Notes 6, Lotus software reinforces its commitment to the worldwide Mac community. Mac users can continue to leverage the unsurpassed messaging and collaboration capabilities delivered with Lotus Notes on the powerful Apple operating system.

Lotus Notes 6 exemplifies the continued strength of Lotus' relationship with the Mac community. As announced at MacWorld Expo 2002, Lotus Notes continues to support Mac OS 9 and will now add support for Mac OS X. The Mac community will benefit from the support for Mac OS X in the release of Lotus Notes 6.0. It mentions the 6.5 client in a couple of places, I didn't spend too much time looking, but I would say they are continuing to develope the Mac client. I tell you what - I bought my wife a PB when she was working at a place that used Notes.

Feb 12, 2018 - After launching IBM Notes 9.0.1 64-bit (Standard Configuration) running with Java 8 Update 152 or later, Notes client will not accept or respond. Looking for Windows version? Alternative IBM Lotus Symphony download from external server (availability not guaranteed). Related searches about ibm lotus symphony.

We NEVER were able to get her notes to work through her VPN, (while her windows box worked fine, and the Mac could get on the VPN network fine too) However, Notes6 worked like a champ inside the network. It almost made Notes not SUCK. Ok that's a huge overstatement.

Notes is just horrible, but it was nicer to use the Mac Notes because of Mac, not Notes. And everyone she worked with in her department (Corporate Communications) was very jealous.

Lotus Notes 8.5 Install

I tell you what - I bought my wife a PB when she was working at a place that used Notes. We NEVER were able to get her notes to work through her VPN, (while her windows box worked fine, and the Mac could get on the VPN network fine too) However, Notes6 worked like a champ inside the network. It almost made Notes not SUCK. Ok that's a huge overstatement.

Notes is just horrible, but it was nicer to use the Mac Notes because of Mac, not Notes. And everyone she worked with in her department (Corporate Communications) was very jealous.

Lotus Notes availability. Lotus Notes is generally available for 10.x for versions starting in R6 up to the new 6.5.1 client. Like one of the other people posted, Notes is a native OS X application. With the OS X version there is the ability to run LotusScript but you can't write it. You can build document collections on your Mac and run through the document collections with AppleScript. In fact you can use AppleScript between the application and another application.

There are some documentation errors with the installation but those have been reported. In most instances the client has been more stable on Mac than Windows. Hope your experience is as good as mine. Notes + Mac OS X = WINNER I have been administering, developing, and managing large Notes environments since its 2.1 days (when 200 users was considered large). I beta tested R6 from 6.0 to 6.51, all on the Mac. It is a native OS X app, and even in beta, was FAR more stable than the Windows version. We have a very secure network, and a custom VPN client written specifically for us by Cisco.

Even though the Mac VPN client is 'unsupported', I never have a problem using it with Notes when away from the office. You will not be able to access your NSF file from Apple's Mail app.

While the Domino server can be configured as a POP or IMAP server, it is generally an enterprise-class application, and most users use the native Notes client or iNotes (browser access). If you have other specific questions, please email me at and I would be glad to help you out. Notes user since 10 days back Nice to read that Notes is better on Mac than PC and that it is a winner. I am pretty sure that I will learn and appreciate this system. But as a complete beginner I would really appreciate every good idea to be able to integrate Notes with the rest of my more ordinary Macintosh cyber landscape (working on a PB 17'). Lipsynk is allready bought - but so far unusable because that strange company refuses to run the registration server.

Have tried to get in touch with that company. But no success so far (according to Versiontracker I am not alone with this experience) - but they were active enough to take my money. Anyway good ideas are more than welcome and if you happen to know how to make Lipsynk work, that is even better. Kissworks called me Seth called me (quite a call from Florida to Sweden - thanks Seth) and gave me a code.

Obviously his mail to me had not arrived - spam filter we guess. So now it works. But for some reason I don't get any transfer yet.

Have to study and work my settings for Notes because I would guess the problem lies there. For instance, my persnal addressbook is that one on a server at my work and not on my computer.

But how do I change that. Well I will figure it out. Sooner or later.

If anyonen here can help to make that sooner it would be great. Nothing wrong with Kissworks.

For Lotus Notes/Mac OS X users only: Without, using Lotus Notes is next to impossible on a lot of Mac OS X systems due to the ridiculous font size. NiniX enables you to modify the font size, something that can be done by editing the ASCII notes.ini file on other platforms. Sadly, on Mac OS X only the notes.ini settings are stored in some binary format. Update:, as usual a source of amazingly useful info on a whole lot of issues, had an about, which makes Notes screens infinitely more readable.

On, said: It’s interesting that there doesn’t seem to be that much information about Notes and Mac OS X since this page seems to attract a lot of visitors from Google hits maybe I’ll slowly morph it into a kind of resource page for stuff related to this. Anyway, to your question: I would say that Notes is significantly different from Outlook on any platform. The reason is that Mail, Calendaring, Addresses and ToDo lists just happen to be a few of the many things that Notes can do; comparing just these to Outlook will almost always result in Outlook being the winner. My advice would be to get familiar with the Notes/Domino concepts of databases, replication, and workgroup-related features; once you have “got” that, the rest makes sense. Mac OS X specific: I find that Notes works very well on OS X; Silk and NiniX are essential, but once you have used them, it’s essentially the same as on other platforms. One thing to note - maybe related to my installation only - is that when you send email and include attachments, sometimes they’ll get compressed to Mac.hqx files. The way around this is to compress certain document types (most notably.doc files) with the Finder and then attach the.zip files.

On, said: Dave, this is probably only happening with some of your Notes databases. The reason is that they have been custom-built by either your IT folks or some third party, and they make use of a LotusScript extension (or LSX for short) that is not available on Mac OS X (an LSX is a loadable module that offers a callable interface to the LotusScript environment, similar to the way a COM control can be called from VisualBasic). While there is ODBC support on Mac OS X, I don’t think IBM/Lotus have ported the LSX, nor are they likely to do so IMO. So if you can’t live without that particular DB (or DBs), you’ll have to either use them from Windows or ask you IT folks (or the vendor) to provide a Web interface to them (if the Domino HTTP task is running on your company’s server, you might even just give it a try - see the Cheat Sheet 1 for more information.