A few times this week, I have posted a link on developerWorks:Lotus to answer some question concerning the creation and sending of HTML e-mail in Notes/Domino. The site that I keep using as a reference is Jake Howlett's Codestore.net. In fact, back in April 2007, he updated his series of articles to use new methods introduced in R6:
Domino 6 introduced a new method to the NotesMIMEEntity class called setContentFromText(). This allows us to add MIME entities to a message and add our own text content to it. Not only this but we can dictate the headers and content types of the message. This gives us the ability to send emails in multiple formats.
As a bonus, he provides code that will render the e-mail in either HTML OR plain text, depending on the recipient's client settings. Even I can see that this is really cool. :-)
If you need to create and send HTML mail using Lotus Notes, look no further than Jake's post. It is "The Final Word" on Notes and HTML mail.
IBM Whitepaper: Administering IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 servers for beginners
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 10:40p Gregg Eldred IBM Lotus has published a whitepaper on administering Domino 8.5. From the abstract:
This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how to administer IBM Lotus® Domino®, explaining the fundamental components and terminology so that new administrators can feel familiar with the product. Specifically, we explain key features and functionalities such as the Notes.ini file, the Data Directory, IDs, server commands and documents, and server activities. Also included are discussions of [read] Keywords: admin
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Redbook: Best Practices for Building Web Applications for Domino 8.5.1
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 11:00p Gregg Eldred This IBM Redbooks wiki has the following objectives:
Provide guidance on Best Practices for Domino Web Development, with emphasis on the new XPages design element. This wiki introduces the key new features of XPages and discusses how and why these features are meaningful within the context of Domino Web Development.
Provide hands-on tutorials and sample code, which give you the opportunity to work with XPages and to understand the improvements in Domino 8.5 Web application development. As a fou [read] Keywords: domino
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The Husband Store
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 10:10p Gregg Eldred A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to t [read] Keywords:
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PCQuest: Preview: Lotus Notes/Domino vs MS Exchange/Outlook 2010
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 1:00p Gregg Eldred The first of several installments from PCQuest where they compare and contrast IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 and Microsoft Exchange and Outlook 2010 has been published. The initial article looks at licensing and a high level view of features.
Email servers have evolved considerably over the years. From being basic solutions that send/receive emails, they've become full-fledged platforms that enable unified communication in an enterprise, allow social networking, and even enable workflow auto [read] Keywords: domino
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Number One Son: Marine
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 4:00a Gregg Eldred Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
Number One Son is now a United States Marine.
After 13 weeks of only communicating with him via letters, on March 4 we finally saw and spent time with Number One Son.
March 4 was Parent's Day at Parris Island. It started by arriving at the Parade Deck at 7:00 AM to watch the start of the Motivational Run. At that hour, all of the recruits [read] Keywords: wiki
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Overheard
Sun, Mar 7th 2010 10:50p Gregg Eldred Tech1: "Oh, man, they include the
web address of their Exchange server in the presentation. Webmail.RNCHQ.Org/Exchange,
expect the hacker onslaught any minute now."
Tech2: "Why bother? They already ruined a perfectly good machine by
putting Exchange on it."
Thanks, Matt. [read] Keywords: exchange
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University of Dayton: Moving Students from Lotus Notes to Gmail?
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 11:31p Gregg Eldred I'm not sure why, but I am enjoying the discussion that is occurring at the University of Dayton concerning e-mail. Currently, all students and staff are on the university's Domino servers. But that will probably be changing. I've talked about UD twice, once about the students forwarding their Notes mail to more familiar messaging systems and then about a paragraph in a Letter to the Editor. Now, the student newspaper, Flyer News, is reporting that the university is evaluating a move from Domino [read] Keywords: domino
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Big Bang Theory: Vanity Cards
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 10:20p Gregg Eldred Silly me. I have been DVR'ing/taping/recording (whatever you want to call it these days) Big Bang Theory primarily so that I can stop the recording to be able to read the vanity cards that close every episode. Little did I know that they were available on the internets. For example, here is the one that appeared after this evenings episode:
I worked for Stan Lee twenty-five years ago at Marvel Animation in Los Angeles. My favorite memory is sitting in his office with the legendary Johnny Carso [read] Keywords: office
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