[H-GEN] Info request: "Surviving Lotus Notes for Unix Geeks"
Andrae Muys
andrae.muys at braintree.com.au
Wed Jul 23 01:09:53 EDT 2003
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Michael Anthon wrote:
> Christopher Biggs wrote:
>> Here's what's still bugging me:
>>
>> 1. You're telling me there's no way to do "reply with quote"
>> in Notes? No way to view raw headers or un-prettified
>> message?
>
> Isn't it grand? Forget using it as a tool to participate in mailing lists.
>
You can get access to a bastadised (redundant, this is notes after all)
form of full headers by looking at the attributes of the email
'document'. Most of the headers appear there as name-value pairs.
> It's actually a database pretending to be an e-mail client. To be fair
> it does have it's good points in terms of workflow stuff but as an
> e-mail client it's a dismal failure. I'm pretty sure this is mostly the
> client's fault rather than an inherent problem with Domino server... but
> I could be wrong
>
No it really dosn't manage many good points there either. The server is
simply too unstable, and the Notes-API too convoluted to be suitable for
mission critical deployment.
>> Anybody got any "making notes suck less" URLs?
>
> No... and I don't think you will find one 8^). On the wonderful system
> that we have at work the admins have even disabled the "agents" that
> would let me do things like automatic mail sorting of all the automated
> emails I get from various machines around the place. When I quizzed
> them on this I was told that it was too much load on the server if it's
> enabled. We have 2 Notes servers, they are at least dual P4/1.something
> G machines with at least 1G of RAM each and server about 600 staff on a
> busy day...
>
Well I don't blame them. I have seen an entire Notes installation
wedged solid after a seemingly valid call to the Notes API (ie. there
was no documentation saying "Do not call this object whilst in this
state"). The entire thing is a ten year old pile of accreted vomitus,
and the smell is as you would expect.
The only reasonable advice that can be offered is "Down not Across".
My Condolences.
Andrae
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