How to Customize iNotes Login Screen (Lotus Web Mail - Login Page)

Today, I'm going to post how to insert company logo and company stamp/name picture on lotus iNotes (Lotus notes WebMail) login page.

Before you begin you must enable the web mail in the Primary Domino Server (or a Fresh Domino Server for WebMail only) . Once you have done that in the domino server, you will see two nsf files :

(Filename can be different as per your choice)

1. iNotes.nsf  (See below screen-shot)

2. domcfg.nsf (See below screen-shot)

When you launch the IE or Firefox on http://dominohub.test.net , initially you'll see below screen. This is the one we are going to replace with our company logo & name.

Steps to Do :

Step-1: (Start Domino Designer Client with Proper Credentials)

Step-2: (Get a copy of "Domcfg.nsf" and Open with Domino Designer)

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Now, Launch the iNotes page in a browser,

Hope this article would help you to improve and innovate more ways in customizing the iNotes.

  Additional Setting :

 Cause : The design task has most likely run and replaced your changes with the template  version.

 Solution :

How to Create a Notes Agent for sending a copy of new mails

Today, I'm going to post on above topic and show you the steps for How to Create an Agent who runs on someone's mail box to "sent a copy of every new email that arrives to another person".

First of all, you may need to enable View > Advanced Menus in the lotus notes client that you want to enable the agent.

Follow the steps given below :

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5]. This screenshot shows your Enabled Agent and in future you may disable or edit the same using this view.

6]. You can view the activated agent here in the Administrator Client

Note : That is all for the Guide. In addition you may have to edit Current Server Document > Security > Programmability  Restrictions > Run Simple and Formula agents to * (All/Specific) for allowing to run simple agents (Private/Shared) depend on your domino domain configurations.

 Help : IBM Tech Note #21094973

 

Upgrade Local Mail Replica using a Button Script

Simple Button Script to Self upgrade Mail file/Archive Mail file

It is assumed that "Mail Replica" is in fixed path for the user.
(Ex : D:/Archive/UserName.nsf )

Steps :

1). Go to Lotus Notes client (As Administrator)

2). Follow the steps as per the screen shot

3). Paste the below code

Sub Myupgrade
Dim result As Variant
result = Shell("nconvert -d C:\MailArchive\svindy.nsf * mail85.ntf")
End Sub

4). Call the function in Click event

Call Myupgrade

Finally Click the body and button script menu will gone.You can get it back by Right clicking the button and go to Edit Button.

Message Recall Facility for iNotes Users

"Message Recall" functionality for iNotes users

To view the "Recall message" button, user needs to have "Notes Id" imported to his mail file. So please perform the below steps:

Prerequisite : Enable Message Recall Settings in Server Document as per your need.

      1) Open the mail file from iNotes

      2) Goto->Preferences->Security->Import Notes ID

      3) Click on Import Notes Id and browse the ID file for this user.

      4) Once this is imported, you will see "Notes ID info" tab is  enabled.

      5) Now goto->Sent Items view->Click on mail which you want to recall and you will be able to see the button "Recall Message".

      6) Click on "Recall Message" to recall it. Here you will be presented with options, select the appropriate option and click OK button.

      7) Once this is done, go to ->Inbox and you will be able to see the recalled message.

      NOTE: The DWA Lite interface does not include the ability to recall a sent message.

** If SSL is not enabled, check Server configuration document->Lotus iNotes->Mail encryption
and set "Require SSL to access Secure Mail Features" to No

How to add a Domino Policy (Explicit)

Here we are going to create a policy where group of users getting "iNotes_Lite Mode" automatically. You may add or remove users from the group any time.

How to add "iNotes Lite mode" using a Policy

Before starting this create a group called "iNotes-Lite-users"

1. Create a Policy call "iNotes-Lite4All" and set Policy type to "Explicit"

2. Go down and select "New.." under Mail Setting Type

3. Under Basics , enter name as "iNotes-Lite" and the Description

4. Go to Lotus iNotes Tab and under Basics select "User UI mode" you want and Set value and prevent changes as user cannot see or change this option on their own

5. Go down and set "Display options" as you want and do Save & Close

6. Go to "iNotes-Lite4All > Policy Assignment" and assign the group you want , then Save & Close

7. Enter "tell adminp update policy" on the domino console

8. This is how you will see at the end of policy creation

Once you are done for all above steps, perform below commands after adding any of users in the domino data directory.

tell adminp update group
tell adminp process mailpolicy


Once you do like this , you are done.Enjoy !!!!


Note : When you perform "tell adminp process mailpolicy" , you will see errors on items 'DefaultAppAssoc' and 'DefaultAppDom'.
Resolve those using below Tech-note
 "https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21507786"

Alternative Method

1. Add this line to Notes.ini file "iNotes_WA_DefaultUI=dwa_lite "
2. Restart HTTP task to effect the feature.


Note : This will effect to all users in domino data directory
(Tech-note : https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21290899 )

How Create a User, only to Register Users in Domino Server

This user can only register users in a particular domino server and he is not allowed to see or change the user's mail databases.Therefore will call this user "RegAdmin"

Steps to be followed:

• Create "RegAdmin" user in the Domino Data Directory with below Access
• User Type : Person
• Access : Editor
• Go to "RegAdmin" user's database and set ACLs exactly the same here in the screen

Now set ACLs to this user on Certlog.nsf as below

Set Domino Data Directory Access (Names.nsf) as below

Change the current server document as below

Now you are done.You have created the User Registrar Person successfully.

Before you create new users using this RegAdmin id, please change your user registration policy or add "Mail File Manager" parameter manually. (See the screen below)

Many of Domino Administrators want to limit ACLs/ Security settings in the Domino Server.Above article is one of such administration task which is very useful. 

How to Recover Missing Lotus Notes id File

Please follow the steps below.

Prerequisites :

• If user has set security encryption on mail database, recovered id file may not be opened the old mail database as well as encrypted emails
• At the user registration if you are adding user to the groups, please follow the same for below as well

Steps to Follow:

1. Login to Admin client as domino administrator
2. Go to People tab and select the particular user
3. Open the person document and take a screen shot where you can see all attributes
4. Do not forget to save it
5. Now, Select the user and simple hit DELETE key in the key-board (Do not use other delete options)
6. Now click on Register user
7. Set the mail system to "None" (This will prevent mailfile creation)
8. Perform all the steps that you do for registering a user under correct OU exactly same as the above user
9. Now register the user (Make sure to give accessible local path to the new id file is being created)
10. Hence, search the user and go to the person document
11. Click on Edit and enter the details as per the previous screenshot you've taken
12. Save & Close

You are done....Enjoy !!!