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Domino Administrator / Admin Tools: When deleting user, delete archive & roaming files as well as mail file

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:25:16 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Tags: delete archive roaming profile
Idea:

I use server-based archiving and roaming profiles. It's a pain that when I delete a user I have to go in and manually delete the archive file and the roaming profile files. It would be nice that these were cleaned up autmatically just like the mail file.

re: When deleting user, delete archive & roaming files as well as mail file

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:19:29 +0000

Author: Michel Poleur
Comment: When I delete an user, roaming files are deleted along with the mail file on my clustered servers. Don't known about archive files.

re: When deleting user, delete archive & roaming files as well as mail file

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:44:55 +0000

Author: Thomas Bahn
Comment: Do you really delete all files at the time, you delete the user?

re: When deleting user, delete archive & roaming files as well as mail file

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:56:38 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Comment: My process is that when a person leaves they go into a special "deny access" group so they can no longer access the system. When I finally get the OK to delete the account, I manually copy (if they exist) their mail file, archive mail file, & Local NAB to a secured file system on one of our servers. Then I go thru the normal "delete user" process thru Domino.

Domino Administrator / Directory: Allow multiple "personas"

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:20:35 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Tags: multiple mail personas
Idea:

Our company has purchased a couple of other companies recently. I know that we could consolidate all our mail infrastrcuture into one and let the existing users keep their existing internet e-mail address (different domains). The problem I have is that we have some users who have "personas" in each domain. Current;y, since we haven't integrated, this means they have multiple e-mail clients (Notes & Outlook) going against the proper back-end (Domino & Exchange). If we consolidate, I don't have any easy way for this person to have one mailbox, but 2 different outgoing internet e-mail addresses. It would be nice that if a message came into john@companyA.com, his reply would go out as john@companyA.com and a message to john@comapnyB.com would respond from john@companyB.com. With the amount or mergers & acquisitions going on, I would think this would be something alot of people would like IBM/Lotus to address.

Domino Administrator / Directory: Report message as SPAM

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:52:50 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Tags: Mail Report SPAM
Idea:

An aciotn button so end-users could forward a mail message to a domain-wide configured e-mail address with the full header so it could easily be used by services such as Postini or appliances like Baracudda to help control SPAM.

re: Report message as SPAM

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:46:36 +0000

Author: Nick Radov
Comment: I build a custom set of actions to do that in the open-source SpamAssassin Integration product. It would have been a lot easier if those features were built in to the standard mail template.

re: Allow multiple "personas"

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:32:49 +0000

Author: Denise Wilson
Comment: See also Keith Brooks' idea "Option of which Email address to use on Send" { Link }

re: Allow multiple "personas"

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:01:04 +0000

Author: Craig Wiseman
Comment: @1 - that was my thought. I don't disagree with the idea, but I don't see how this is siginificantly different.

re: Report message as SPAM

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:51:07 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: I seem to recall talk of Lotus working on this, but that it was widely thought a bad idea. Can't find anything about it though. Anybody else remember this?

re: Allow multiple "personas"

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:12:55 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Comment: I have found a temporary work around for this. I've been using the Team Mailbox template from OpenNTF for awhile now. Since this can create a "persona" for it's mail-in DB that hides the actual person who is using it (i.e. no "sent by abc" added to the message), I did some testing and this will let someone manage e-mail addresses for 2 different email domains from a "single" mailbox. For the person's main account, you create a real Notes mail account. Using the Team Mailbox template you create a mail-in DB for their secondary address(es). In the mail-in DB, enable the auto-reminder agent to send a notice to their main account. When the receive this notice in their main inbox, they can click on the doc link to reply and/or forward this message.

re: Report message as SPAM

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:55:17 +0000

Author: Sandi Glazebrook
Comment: We wrote a button to submit mail to our spam database that extracts much of the header information. Unfortunately, some of the fields that are provided in the Page Source we couldn't get to through our button and we opened a ticket with Lotus to try and tap into the code they use behind the View-->Show-->Page Source button.

re: Allow multiple "personas"

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:29:24 +0000

Author: David Hablewitz
Comment: This is similar to my requests for POP account features that I posted under Notes Client - Mail topics dated Feb 18. Some people rejected it without commenting. I expect they don't have multiple identities in Notes or use IMAP or POP.

re: Add Sametime community ID (i.e. bleedyellow)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:06:26 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Bruce's think alike :-) Just yesterday Nathan and I talked about enabled ST awareness with BleedYellow.com for IdeaJam. Stay tuned.

Notes Client / Mail: Stop collapsing folders when I remove a folder

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:15:31 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Tags: mail folder
Idea:

I hate that every time I go to remove a folder I no longer need, it collapses my whole folder structure. I have a nested folder structure that I've spent a bit of time creating, and I have a number of them I like to always have open (the ones I use all the time) and a bunch that I leave collapsed, and only open when I need them. Whenever I need to remove a folder, it collapses the whole structure and I have to go back in and open up the ones I want to always be open.

re: Stop collapsing folders when I remove a folder

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:16:35 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Yes, yes, yes!!!!

Domino Designer / : Default Widget FrameSet for System DB's

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:35:26 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Tags: widget
Idea:

Kevin Kanarski had posted on his blog about a widget he created to access info from the DDM on Feb 21 (here's the link ).

I think it would be really cool if IBM would create a standard FrameSet and/or View with standard names in all the system DB's that we could then crfeate the widgets for withour having to modify the DB design. DB's that I can think of that this would be helpful are :

DDM (by severity like Kevin already did)

AdminP (all pending requests)

CertLog (expired or expiring certificates)

Domino Fault Reports

I'm sure there's plenty more that would help administrators manage their Domino environment once we got started.

re: Stop collapsing folders when I remove a folder

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:38:33 +0000

Author: Mary Beth Raven
Comment: Guys, what version are you using? This might have been fixed in 8.0 or 8.0.1. This collapsing thing does NOT happen on my Notes client (tho I am running a pre-beta build of Notes 8)

re: Stop collapsing folders when I remove a folder

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:35:05 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Comment: Mary Beth, I'm currently at V7.02. Hopefully will start my 8.01 migration within the next month. We're specing out the server and scheduling the local var now. We're also using this as an opportunity to setup a brand new domain (so we're not continuing to pull all the "bad" ways of doing everything since our current domain started out at version 4.6) and to move to Linux for the server. Can't wait!

Domino Administrator / Admin Tools: When new release comes out document SmartUpgrade Deployment Version

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:50:40 +0000

Author: Bruce Currier
Tags: SmartUpgrade Deployment Version
Idea:

When IBM releases a new version, they should document what the deployment version text is that should be used in the SmartUpgrade DB. I always wind up playing with it for a few hours or searching on LDD for someone else who has already done this to get the right text.