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POP/IMAP client for Blackberries

Notesboy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:29:24 -0400

LogicMail is a J2ME E-Mail client supporting IMAP and POP, and designed to run on RIM BlackBerry handheld devices . For more information click here

To download the client . click here

And YES it IS FREE!

nserver has terminated abnormally -ideas??

Notesboy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:56:29 -0400

Just upgraded a wintel server from 7.0.3 to 8.0.1 and here is what am seeing... server still responds well and no problems with users accessing it. any ideas?

08/20/2008 05:53:23 PM Admin Process: Searching Administration Requests database
08/20/2008 05:53:24 PM Process C:\Lotus\Domino\nserver.exe (1072/0x430) has terminated abnormally
08/20/2008 05:54:01 PM Opened session for xxxx (Release 7.0.2)
08/20/2008 05:54:01 PM Closed session for xxxx Databases accessed: 1 Docume
ts read: 0 Documents written: 0
08/20/2008 05:54:11 PM SMTP Server: 72.16.179.197 connected
08/20/2008 05:54:15 PM SMTP Server: Authentication succeeded for user xxxxx
connecting host 72.16.179.197
08/20/2008 05:54:18 PM SMTP Server: Message 007853EC (MessageID: ) received
08/20/2008 05:54:19 PM Router: Message 007853EC delivered to xxxxxx
08/20/2008 05:54:22 PM SMTP Server: yyyyyyyyyyyyyy connected
08/20/2008 05:54:23 PM SMTP Server: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz received
08/20/2008 05:54:23 PM SMTP Server: yyyyyyyyyyyyy disconnected. 1 message[s] received
08/20/2008 05:54:23 PM SMTP Server: yyyyyyyyyyyyy disconnected. 1 message[s] received
08/20/2008 05:54:24 PM Router: Message 007855D5 delivered to xxxxx
08/20/2008 05:54:24 PM Process C:\Lotus\Domino\nserver.exe (1072/0x430) has terminated abnormally

How do I get hidden mail rules to re-appear in the Lotus Notes client

Notesboy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:52:22 -0400

Got asked a very interesting question by a client today (2nd client in 2 weeks to ask me this same question). Heres what he said

"I just upgraded a users mail box to the version 8 template and all his mail rules are gone! what happened? why did they get deleted?"

Well , they are not deleted , they just disappeared. Here's how to get them back.

Open your mail file.
When your in your mailbox , Press Ctrl/Shift and click on View from the Menu bar on top and select GoTo
This will open a pop up box as shown below with all the all hidden views in your mailbox

Open one of the view's names, for example: ($VIM100).
In the mail menu, go to View -> Search this view.
In the Search for field, enter the following query:

Field Form = "mailrule"

Click Search.
All MailRule documents that had disappeared should reappear.
Double-click on each document to open them.
Double-click on any opened document to place it in "Edit" mode.
Press Esc to close the document.
Click Accept to save the document.

All missing MailFile documents should appear in your Tools ->Rules view.

Now as to why they disappeared, will check with Lotus.

Terminal services with XP SP3 - cannot see Lotus Domino server conole

Notesboy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:52:24 -0400

We are all used to using the command mstsc /console to connect to the Lotus Domino server in order to see the Lotus Domino console. But once you install Service Pack 3 on Windows XP . It does not work anymore. If you use the mstsc/console you will NOT see the Lotus Domino console. All you will see the is regular windows terminal.

In order to be able to view the Lotus Domino server console the new command now is

mstsc /admin

Wow thank you Microsoft that was a really badly needed change/fix.....Yeah rite!!!

How to upgrade IBM traveler client from 8.0.1 to 8.0.1.2

Notesboy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:23:19 -0400

IBM Traveler Client Installation:

If you are installing over Lotus Notes Traveler Client 801 or 8011, first stop the client on the device. Select the Lotus Notes Traveler icon --> Menu --> Exit.
Once the Lotus Notes Traveler 8.0.1.2 server has been installed and is running, the Lotus Notes Traveler 8.0.1.2 client can be found at:
http(s):///traveler/index.html
or
\domino\html\traveler\LotusTraveler
The Lotus Notes Traveler client can be transfered to the device in several different ways, including:
Over-the-air (OTA) web download via the Client Download Web site.
ActiveSync
Bluetooth
Storage Card
Once the client has been transfered to the device, simply click on the install package to begin the installation.
If this is an upgrade from 801 or 8011 just follow the instructions of the Install Wizard to complete the installation.
If this is a new install, please review the installation instructions outlined in the 8.0.1 Info Center before beginning.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/topic/com.ibm.help.lnt.doc/Install_IBM_Lotus_Notes_Traveler_Client.html
To verify the client installation select the Lotus Notes Traveler icon --> Menu --> About and verify the About screen reads:

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler Version 8.0.1.2

multilanguage support for traveler client

Notesboy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:51:10 -0400

I am really not sure this was there in the initial release of IBM Lotus Traveler (am pretty sure it was not), but after I upgraded to the new 8.0.1.2 version , there seems to be a lot of client updates . They have also included client support for all the major languages. See screen shots below.

IBM Traveler update

Notesboy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:42:25 -0400

I upgraded the IBM Traveler from version 8.0.1 to 8.0.1.1 and on to 8.0.1.2 . I do hope this will fix a few of the major bugs in the previous version

tell traveler version
SyncServerVersion
- Major Version = 8
- Minor Version = 0
- Revision Level = 1
- Maintenance Level = 2
- Build Level = 200807181242
- Domino Version = Release 8.0.1|February 07, 2008

One thing I have go give kudos for is the stat commands in traveler. It really gives you a very good idea of where things stand on the server. take a look at the example below.

08/18/2008 08:18:04 AM Remote console command issued by Domino Administrator/traveler: tell traveler showstats
There are 9 users known to the system.
33 percent (3) of the users have been offline for more than 24 hours.
66 percent (6) of the users are online or have been within the past 24 hours.
There are 6 mailfiles currently being monitored for these online users.
The current change detection latency of these mailfiles is 0 ms.
There are 10 devices known to the system.
40 percent (4) of the devices have been offline for more than 24 hours.
60 percent (6) of the devices are online or have been within the past 24 hours.
50 percent (5) of the devices are currently connected to the server via TCP.
There have been 649 prime syncs.
The average prime sync took 887 ms.
100 percent (649) of the prime syncs were successful.
The average successful prime sync took 887 ms.
0 percent (0) of the prime syncs failed.
The average failed prime sync took N/A ms.
There are an average of 0.003 prime syncs running at any given time.
There have been 98 device syncs.
The average device sync took 27,419 ms and transferred 5,793 bytes.
93 percent (92) of the device syncs were successful.
The average successful device sync took 8,570 ms.
6 percent (6) of the device syncs failed.
The average failed device sync took 316,431 ms.
5 percent (5) of the device syncs ended in result 408.
The average 408 device sync took 339,558 ms.
1 percent (1) of the device syncs ended in result 409.
The average 409 device sync took 200,798 ms.
There are an average of 0.016 device syncs occurring at any given time.

T-Mobile to launch Google Android phone

Notesboy — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:51:39 -0400

T-Mobile is to launch the first phone based on Google's Android design on Sept 17, 2008 in hopes that the new device will compete with Apple's iPhone, Wired magazine reported on Friday. The smartphone will be manufactured by Taiwan-based High Tech Computer, and will have a large touch screen that slides out to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard. The device, which will be called the G1, will sell for $150 to T-Mobile customers in the first week of launch before it is offered to other customers at a higher price. Google developed the Android design to help it expand its successful advertising business into the increasingly lucrative mobile market. It released the parameters to an alliance of mobile phone carriers, developers and manufacturers earlier in the year. Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile announced in February that it would introduce Android-based phones in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Its been quite a while

Notesboy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:10:27 -0400

I do know its been quite a while but am still around.

Between my mum visiting from India and a few false health scares for me and work its been mayhem out here. I have a few posts I have been working on and will post soon

till then...........

Yet another OS upgrade to my Blackberry 8320

Notesboy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:15:00 -0400

I just found another new OS for the 8320 and this is available for Blackberries of the 8100 (Pearl) , 8300 (Curve) and the 8800(whatever it was called) series.

I do find it to be a quite a bit faster than the previous releases, (good job RIM).

But my old grievance still remains, that being the instability of the UMA . Now this could also be due to my router so I am not yet totally prepared to blame rim on it , but I do notice its a lot more unstable if you use the bluetooth . Now that part I guess RIM's going to work on.

Now for my UMA problem I have decided to get the latest router from Linksys (Read my my-next-router-it-has-qos-for-uma here)

My next router-it has QOS for UMA

Notesboy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:07:34 -0400

I am getting tired of my router at home. The wired part works fine but since last sunday the wireless part keeps hanging/locking up. this means I have to keep rebooting the router. Now thats not going to work with me.

So I have decided to buy the new linksys WRT610N router.

The features in short are

Internet-sharing Router and 4-port Gigabit Switch, with a built-in, dual-band, speed and range enhanced Wireless Access Point
Two simultaneous, separate, radio bands double your available bandwidth
Wireless-N technology uses multiple radios per band to create robust signals for maximum range and speed, with reduced dead spots
Connect a hard drive or flash-based USB storage device to allow access to your music, video, or data files from within your network, or through the Internet
Advanced wireless security and SPI firewall for protection from Internet attacks

The other main reason is is allows me to do QOS for UMA devices. Now that I like especially for all the testing I do with the blackberries.

Blackberry 9000 OS available for download

Notesboy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:45:25 -0400

Now here we go again.

RIM has already made available a release for the OS of the BB 9000. And it is a release 4.6 and not a 5.0

My question is "where is the BOLD?".

Yeah yeah,,patience

Back from vacation

Notesboy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:39:07 -0400

Been back a week but my lazy a** is still dragging from all the cajun food I feasted on (or as my sis loves to put it "pigged out " on!).

Now back to bloging , have a few interesting posts on the BB as well as spotting for newest OS for the BBs

Vacation

Notesboy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:07:36 -0400

Am on vacation this week, but am working on a few posts including the new blackberry OS, the new blackberry desktop manager, the new certification exams.

A few IBM Traveler issues that are really baffling especially where the senders name seems to be getting replaced when a mail is forwarded (there's a ghost in the system somewheres!). Till then, .....

Missing single sign-on in Lotus Notes client- Solution

Notesboy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:26:19 -0400

I got asked an interesting question.

" we installed the lotus notes client and forgot to select the Single sign on option. Is there a way to add just that or do we have to re-install the entire lotus notes client?"

Well here you go

To install the single client logon feature silently on existing Notes deployed workstations, use the ADD the feature when calling the MSI, for example:

msiexec /i "\\path\to\installfiles\Lotus Notes 8.0.msi" ADDLOCAL=ClientSingleLogon /qb+

and use:

/qn for a completely silent install (no user intervention) WITHOUT progress bar, or

/qb for a silent install (no user intervention) WITH progress bar.

You can add a "+" switch, to see a dialog that states the installation is complete (for example: /qn+ , /qb+ ). this is a nice option to add so the user visually knows when the install is done.

Optionally, you can also hide the cancel button so your users cannot opt to cancel out of the install. just add a " ! " to the arguments ..
example: /qb!+

This is a really small install and only takes a few seconds to execute.

After sucessfull installation, the single client login service has to be started at the workstation. Then, logout and re-authenticate.

IBM Wikis

Notesboy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:21:19 -0400

Here is a link to a comprehensive set of wikis from IBM

Click here for the Wiki Home page

Click here for the Lotus Domino Wiki page

Click here for the Lotus Quickr Wiki page

Click here for the Lotus Sametime Wiki page

Click here for the Lotus Connections Wiki page

For other wikis to go the Wiki Home page link

You are going "Thank you Lotus , thank you !!"..Right???.... I am!!

Morzilla Firefox 3.0

Notesboy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:29:35 -0400

Downloaded the new Morzilla Firefox 3.0 today. I must say I am impressed. it is neat.

I particularly like the type-ahead search kind of feature in the address bar

Blackberry 8320 OS upgrade v 4.5.0.42

Notesboy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:13:47 -0400

Just upgraded my Blackberry 8320 to the new OS v4.5.0.42

I have not seen any new features but one thing I did notice is that moving between menus and opening applications does seem to be a lot faster that in the previous release.

As always will play around with it over the next few days and blog any NEW features (both good and bad) that I find. I have already been warned that the voice calls seem to be dropping even on Edge off late on the t-mobile network . Now this could be cos of network related stuff more that BB related stuff.

Lets wait and see.....

Blackberry Bold on AT&T

Notesboy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:56:45 -0400

At last RIM has woken up to the good ol' saying "keep up or get left out eating the dust". They have announced a phone that is truely gonna give the iPhone a run for its money and based on the specs (read my previous post 3G-Blackberry-and-iPhone-comparison) it might even beat the iPhone on its own turf. The fun part being they have infact taken the race down to the line , releasing on the Blackberry Bold 4 days apart from the iPhone 2.0, and just like the iPhone exclusively on AT&T..

After going through the specifications in detail (read my previous post 3G-Blackberry-and-iPhone-comparison) and doing a comparison, I would feel the Bold would win hands down. But there are a few factors to consider here.

1. A lot of the corporates use a BES so there for the Bold is going to be a natural winner by force rather than choice
2. If you want push mail to the iPhone you need to subscribe to MobileMe package which has a startup fee of US$99.00 for a single user with 5gb online storage and a family pack for US$149.00 with 40gb online storage. (am yet to find how much the annual renewal would be!)
3. So far there has been no official announcement either from IBM or Microsoft about iPhone support either for Exchange or Domino where as the Blackberry is well known to work with both.

As I come across more I will blog later.

3G BlackBerry Bold & 3G Apple iPhone 2.0 Comparison

Notesboy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:04:27 -0400

Thanks to our friends at pinstack.com

As always another awsome article from pinstack.com. A very good comparison between 3G Blackberry Bold and the new 3G iPhone 2.0as the original. Go through it and let me know who you think would be the winner.

PinStack.com's ultimate 3G BlackBerry Bold & 3G Apple iPhone 2.0 Comparison

Things to note about the 3G Apple iPhone and 3G BlackBerry BOLD:

The 3G iPhone's internal processor is STILL the same as the original. So much for more speed. Whereas previous BlackBerrys had 312MHz and the new BOLD has a 624MHz processor. Who's truly "twice as fast" as before?
BlackBerry's consumer PUSH email service is included with your BlackBerry internet Service (BIS) plan. In addition the iPhone internet you must pay for "MobileMe" subscription for PUSH email.