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MESSAGING TUTORIAL
The hidden power of Domino messaging
By Jon Johnston

Welcome to the premier issue of DominoPower. My articles will focus on the Domino/Notes environment as it relates to messaging. The fact that Domino is an excellent messaging platform seems to be frequently ignored, or at the least, overlooked.

The vast majority of material available about Domino and Notes is based upon the development of groupware and web-based applications. Magazine articles, whitepapers, and even new marketing terminology (such as my favorite, Knowledge Management) focus heavily on these issues. By relative comparison, precious little information is available on how to implement, manage and maintain Domino from a messaging perspective.

Flexibility
The Domino moniker, given to the server platform with release 4.5 of Lotus Notes, reflects the Internet standards side of the Domino/Notes environment. With the release of 4.6, Domino offers a level of Internet standards support comparable with nearly any other messaging system on the market. Domino supports:

  • POP3 (Post Office Protocol)
  • IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol)
  • SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
  • MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
  • LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
  • HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol)

Notes clients access Notes data through the "traditional" proprietary Notes interface. Notes clients come in many flavors:

  • NotesMail, which provides email and integrated calendaring/scheduling;
  • Lotus Notes Desktop, which provides integrated email, calendaring/scheduling, and a runtime environment for groupware applications;
  • Lotus Notes Designer, which provides a full groupware development environment along with the functionality of the other clients.

The Domino server's ability to provide email, calendaring/scheduling, groupware, and web-based development within a single infrastructure is evidence of its flexibility. Your choice of clients may be deployed throughout the enterprise based upon the requirements of each department or user base.

Browser access to email
The simplest method of providing email and calendaring/scheduling access is through a web browser interface directly to the Domino server, as shown in Figure A. The browser combination provides a simple interface if your users do not require the sophistication of the NotesMail or Notes Desktop clients. This type of implementation is becoming more commonplace as Internet (web) access has become more common.


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