Not in your case, no. That connector is mainly for migrating/coexistence between Lotus Notes and Exchange.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Blunt Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Sending to a Lotus Notes system I just saw something I hadn't seen before. While installing the Ex2003 System Management Tools on my reformatted laptop, I noticed that there is an "Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes" option. Do I need to install this option? TIA, Jim On 5/8/07, Jim Blunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know...I hadn't thought about the Cached Mode. That's the default > mode that Outlook 2003 installs with. It's possible that our SMS guy > missed clearing that checkbox. I'll check tomorrow. > > I also didn't think about the person having the individual in their > personal Contacts folder. I'll check that too. > > I did clear the cache for one lady and then typed in the long address, > which it then resolved to the account in the GAL. > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > Jim > > On 5/8/07, Knoch Jr., James W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a very odd problem. As I'm sure you're aware, the winmail.dat > > attachment is seen by recipients when Outlook sends a RTF message to a > > non-Outlook client. Whether the person is a mail-enabled user or a > > Contact, as long as the Sender is not enforcing Rich Text somewhere (and > > Exchange does not have it forced), it shouldn't matter whether they > > select the address from the GAL or not. > > > > From your e-mail when you mentioned clearing out Suggestions, it seems > > like the user is sending to the e-mail address without it being resolved > > by the GAL and it somehow gets dumped straight to SMTP. This makes it > > default to a non-RTF format. Are your users in Cached Mode using an > > Offline Address Book? > > > > All the clients involved aren't defaulting their Mail Format to Rich > > Text, correct? Also, they don't have any hidden Contacts for some of > > these people where they may have Rich Text being forced on the mail > > address? > > > > I just created a temporary Mail-enabled user that points to my external > > account. It worked just how I expected it to whether I had my Default > > reply-to e-mail address set to an internal one or external one. It sent > > as HTML as was defaulted to by my client. Picking it out of the GAL or > > not. Exchange should know it is an External address based on it using > > an External e-mail address (targetAddress in the schema) when it was > > mail-enabled. > > > > From your problems it still seems like RTF is being forced somewhere, > > unless it is some bug in SP1 I don't know about (We run 2003 SP2 here). > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim > > Blunt > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 6:38 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Re: Sending to a Lotus Notes system > > > > I already did that...didn't change a thing. > > > > The way I have it right now, we can send to them, regardless of the > > format the user sends (HTML, RTF or Plain) and it gets there fine. > > > > On 5/8/07, Knoch Jr., James W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Still seems like an odd problem to me. Not quite sure why it keeps > > > forcing Rich Text. > > > > > > Here's something else to try. In your Global Settings in Internet > > > Message Formats, add your Lotus Notes domain address. From there try > > > setting the Message Format and set under Advanced to "Never use" > > > Exchange rich-text format. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim > > > Blunt > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 6:00 PM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: Re: Sending to a Lotus Notes system > > > > > > Ok...since no one but James responded, I'll assume my assumptions in > > > the first e-mail were correct. > > > > > > So now, I'm faced with this dilemma. > > > > > > I have nine (9) mail-enabled contacts for this governmental > > > organization, whose accounts reside on Lotus Notes servers located > > > back East. All nine contacts have three email addresses: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (default SMTP address) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lotus Notes address I > > added > > > later) > > > ...and an X400 e-mail address created by default > > > > > > Currently, I have got everything working, without any modifications on > > > the user side, as long as they 1) clear the Outlook cache before > > > sending and 2) type the entire Lotus Notes address instead of picking > > > it from the GAL. > > > > > > If they pick the person from the GAL, it uses the SMTP address and > > > fails...it attaches a winmail.dat file. > > > > > > If I change the SMTP address to match the Lotus Notes address...same > > > thing. > > > > > > If I leave the new SMTP address and delete the Lotus Notes > > > address...same thing. > > > > > > If I go to the Exchange General tab of the mail-enabled contact and > > > change the home e-mail address (not to be confused with the default > > > SMTP address) to a Lotus Notes address, I get the following error > > > message when I pick the person from the GAL: > > > > > > "The message could not be delivered because the recipient's > > > destination email system is unknown or invalid. Please check the > > > address and try again, or contact your system administrator to verify > > > connectivity to the email system of the recipient. > > > <server.domain.com #5.1.2>" > > > > > > Is there ANY way to get the Lotus Notes e-mail address to be the > > > DEFAULT e-mail address that is used, when picking one of these > > > individuals from the GAL? > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > > On 5/7/07, Jim Blunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > James, > > > > > > > > No...that option was not enabled. > > > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > On 5/4/07, Knoch Jr., James W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You did not have "Use MAPI rich text format" enabled in Exchange > > > > > Advanced on those Contacts did you? By default it is not > > selected, > > > so > > > > > when you created those Mail-enabled accounts it set them to not > > have > > > > > this checked. That check box would override whatever the client > > > sent as > > > > > to be sent as Rich Text. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > > Jim > > > > > Blunt > > > > > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 12:03 PM > > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > > Subject: Sending to a Lotus Notes system > > > > > > > > > > Scenario: > > > > > - Sending Server: Exchange 2003 Native, SP1 on Windows 2003, > > > SP1 > > > > > - Sending Client: Outlook 2003, SP1 and Outlook 2003, SP2 > > > > > - Sending Domain: Windows 2003 AD, Native mode > > > > > - Receiving Server: Lotus Notes Domino server, version 6.5.2 > > > > > - Receiving Client: ? > > > > > > > > > > Issue: > > > > > We are required to send e-mail to a certain governmental oversight > > > > > organization, as part of our contract. This organization is a > > > > > completely seperate entity from us and utilizes Lotus Notes. They > > > > > have nine (9) people from their organization in our GAL, as > > > > > mail-enabled contacts. Those mail-enabled contacts had an SMTP > > > > > address defined as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > > > > > > > > > However when we sent them anything from Outlook, regardless of > > what > > > > > format we sent it in (plain text, RTF, HTML), it would always > > remove > > > > > the formatting and put the formatting and any attachment in a > > > > > winmail.dat file. The only time this didn't happen, was if a > > > > > non-Microsoft attachment was sent (Adobe pdf), attached to a > > > > > plain-text e-mail. If the same formatted e-mail was sent from an > > > > > Exchange 2003 OWA interface with a MS attachment, formatting and > > > > > attachment were received intact. I'm *ASSUMING* this is because > > the > > > > > HTML nature of the OWA interface doesn't attach the Microsoft > > > Outlook > > > > > Rich Text formatting to the e-mail in the form of a TNEF > > attachment. > > > > > Is my understanding correct? > > > > > > > > > > Since this involved Director-level personnel however, using the > > OWA > > > to > > > > > send e-mails to this organization wasn't deemed an appropriate > > > > > long-term workaround. > > > > > > > > > > I tried everything I know of, to fix this. I tried: > > > > > 1. Sending in HTML, Plain-text and RTF default e-mail > > formats, > > > > > all with and without attachments and formatting. > > > > > 2. I went into the Tools/Options/Mail Format tab of Outlook, > > > > > clicked on the Internet options and tried every combination of > > > > > HTML/Outlook RTF/Plain-text, in tandem with the options in #1. > > > > > 3. Along with options #1 & 2, I also tried > > > UUencoding...nothing > > > > > worked. > > > > > 4. Adding a rule(?) on the Exchange server from the ESM > > under > > > > > Global Options/Internet Formats(?) that specified that anything > > > going > > > > > to "@name.gov" would be converted to plain-text, regardless of > > user > > > > > settings...still nothing. > > > > > > > > > > Solution: > > > > > Since Exchange is an SMTP format mail server, if you have more > > than > > > > > one type of e-mail address specified (notes, smtp, msmail, etc), > > I'm > > > > > *ASSUMING* it uses the SMTP by default. So...I went in and > > defined > > > a > > > > > Lotus Notes address that was "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" for > > > each > > > > > of the nine mail-enabled contacts. Then, I had the people from > > our > > > > > company sending to those individuals type in the Lotus Notes > > address > > > > > in the To: section (since I'm *ASSUMING* that if they just pick it > > > from > > > > > the GAL, it will us the SMTP address). Once they did this, it > > > > > realized it was sending to a foreign mail system and must have > > > > > formatted the headers different, because this time, all the > > > formatting > > > > > came through intact in the initial e-mail and it didn't matter > > what > > > > > the attachment type was. > > > > > > > > > > So...are my assumptions that I made during this process correct, > > and > > > > > was there an easier way to fix this problem? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > > > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > > > Jupitermedia Corp. > > > Attn: Discussion List Management > > > 475 Park Avenue South > > > New York, NY 10016 > > > > > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > > > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > > > Jupitermedia Corp. > > > Attn: Discussion List Management > > > 475 Park Avenue South > > > New York, NY 10016 > > > > > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > > Jupitermedia Corp. > > Attn: Discussion List Management > > 475 Park Avenue South > > New York, NY 10016 > > > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > > Jupitermedia Corp. > > Attn: Discussion List Management > > 475 Park Avenue South > > New York, NY 10016 > > > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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