headers
Emile CARCAMO | 19 May 2011 07:05
X-Face
Picon
Favicon

exmh with IMAP access against a Notes server...


Dear List,

	I'm an exmh user since 1995 ( long time ago !!), this
	tool is as usefull as my right hand, to compare briefly.

	Now everyone in my company is being switched to
	Lotus Notes and his proprietary folder's format :-(
	and -all- IMAP client access is being cut off, btw.

	Although this list doesn't exist for that purpose, I'd
	like to get access to fetchnotes to continue working
	as I did over the past 15 years !!!

	In case someone out there has any Linux technical
	contact within IBM, I'll be glad to hear about him/her.

	Many thanks in advance. With best regards,

-Emile
Permalink | Reply |
headers
Kevin Cosgrove | 19 May 2011 07:37
Picon
Favicon

Re: exmh with IMAP access against a Notes server...


On 19 May 2011 at 7:05, Emile CARCAMO <ecarcamo <at> free.fr> wrote:

> 	I'm an exmh user since 1995 ( long time ago !!), this
> 	tool is as usefull as my right hand, to compare briefly.
> 
> 	Now everyone in my company is being switched to
> 	Lotus Notes and his proprietary folder's format :-(
> 	and -all- IMAP client access is being cut off, btw.
> 
> 	Although this list doesn't exist for that purpose, I'd
> 	like to get access to fetchnotes to continue working
> 	as I did over the past 15 years !!!
> 
> 	In case someone out there has any Linux technical
> 	contact within IBM, I'll be glad to hear about him/her.
> 
> 	Many thanks in advance. With best regards,

I use fetchmail to get mail from an Exchange server using IMAP
and drop it into my mail spool file, using exmh/nmh from there.
Would Lotus Note & IMAP be all that different?  I use SMTP for
outgoing email.

Good luck...

--
Kevin
Permalink | Reply |
headers
Emile CARCAMO | 19 May 2011 08:03
Picon
Favicon

Re: exmh with IMAP access against a Notes server...


> 
> On 19 May 2011 at 7:05, Emile CARCAMO <ecarcamo <at> free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > 	I'm an exmh user since 1995 ( long time ago !!), this
> > 	tool is as usefull as my right hand, to compare briefly.
> > 
> > 	Now everyone in my company is being switched to
> > 	Lotus Notes and his proprietary folder's format :-(
> > 	and -all- IMAP client access is being cut off, btw.
> > 
> > 	Although this list doesn't exist for that purpose, I'd
> > 	like to get access to fetchnotes to continue working
> > 	as I did over the past 15 years !!!
> > 
> > 	In case someone out there has any Linux technical
> > 	contact within IBM, I'll be glad to hear about him/her.
> > 
> > 	Many thanks in advance. With best regards,
> 
> I use fetchmail to get mail from an Exchange server using IMAP
> and drop it into my mail spool file, using exmh/nmh from there.
> Would Lotus Note & IMAP be all that different?  I use SMTP for
> outgoing email.
> 

Thanks Kevin !!

IMAP access was also available until ... they decided to migrate
Notes version on servers and then "provide" end users with a
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply |
headers
Kevin Cosgrove | 19 May 2011 08:15
Picon
Favicon

Re: exmh with IMAP access against a Notes server...


On 19 May 2011 at 8:03, Emile CARCAMO <ecarcamo <at> free.fr> wrote:

> IMAP access was also available until ... they decided to migrate
> Notes version on servers and then "provide" end users with a
> Linux rpm/deb package for Notes client. Now IMAP access is
> being cut off as I mentionned above.
> 
> I was also working as you mentionned with fetchmail - procmail -
> nmh - exmh plus a SMTP server for outgoing messages.
> 
> Now fetchnotes is mandatory for me to keep on going !!
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. With best regards,

Sorry, I read your message too quickly.

I wonder if the last entry here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2552141/how-to-fetch-message-body-and-attachments-in-xml-format-using-php-linux-from-lotu

might be a useful start?  Yes, the URL says XML format.  But, the 
comment about the last of the 3 answers doesn't say whether it's XML 
or not.  If you can write code, then maybe you can parse the XML, 
turning it into a "real" mail message and dropping it to your spool?

Sorry that I can't offer any more than that.  :-(

If you do solve this problem, then posting your solution, even in 
proof of concept stage, would be useful for many people with any kind 
of Linux email client.  comp.mail.misc might be a good place on
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply |
headers
Andy Bradford | 21 May 2011 05:05

Re: exmh with IMAP access against a Notes server...

Thus said Emile CARCAMO on Thu, 19 May 2011 07:05:09 +0200:

>  Now everyone in  my company is being switched to  Lotus Notes and his
>  proprietary folder's format :-( and -all- IMAP client access is being
>  cut off, btw.

If you google around enough you  might get lucky and find something like
this for Lotus Notes.

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

If Lotus Notes has an exchange  compatible API then maybe this will work
with it. Find  out if they have  an OWA interface which  is what Davmail
uses. It's written  in Java, but maybe if someone  is determined enough,
one could write something similar in Tcl. :-)

Andy
Permalink | Reply |

Gmane