on 15/08/2004 4:09 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've been told recently that Entourage 2004 is incompatible with Lotus Domino Server. As far as I recall, Entourage X had some sort of hack which made it work with Domino and that was removed in 2004 because the hack causes other problems. So you'll have to retreat to X until your company gets a better server.
Notes is at best adequate as a mail client but it’s not that bad, in particular if you stay within the Domino environment. Furthermore communication with the outside world (read: standards support) is improving, roughly at twice the rate that the sun is cooling. You can say much the same about Outlook/Exchange except perhaps the part about the rate of change. However Domino is not a mail server. It is a database server that has a SMTP engine and where some of the databases happen to be email/calendar records or contact records. Domino designers can develop other quite sophisticated database applications that are made available through the Notes client. Examples I have seen include content management of web pages and web sites, calculators, inventory control and document control. Indeed the last is almost a standard use of Domino. Thus Domino is usually firmly and deeply embedded within the enterprise structure and not likely to be going anywhere, which is the point of this message. If you, the user, really dislike Notes then there is only a faint hope that there will be a switch to another mail server. It typically comes down to one company being absorbed by another and it’s not uncommon for that other company to give up on Exchange instead.
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fwiw
Dave
