Lotus Notes (4.5 perhaps newer) as standalone mailer with Ubuntu 7.10 & ff ???

[SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:09 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 08:24 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> > Would love competent advice and guidance to get it done 
> > without loosing my existing stuff and continuing seamless !!
> 
> If you have lots of stuff in Notes which you don't want to lose, then
> your best bet is probably switching to Notes 8, which runs on Linux
> (Notes 8 is a Java application). You'd be set then.
> 
> Other options:
> 
> Notes 6.5.1+ runs under Wine (though not flawlessly), at least the
> commercial version from Codeweavers:
> http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=158
> 
> If you want to switch to a native Linux client I guess it depends what
> parts of Notes you use. E.g., AFAIK Notes can export your personal
> address book to a *.csv file, and Evolution can import those. 
> 
> Email is another matter, I don't think Notes can export it, and the
> files have a proprietary format. If you already have an IMAP server then
> you are set, just leave the mail there and point your new email client
> (Evolution, Thunderbird, ...) to it. If you don't have one, it might be
> best to set one up and copy your Notes email within Notes to the IMAP
> server.
> 
> I don't know how to migrate Notes databases and the like.


Hi Mario
Thanks for your reply !

My intention is changing from native Lotus Notes 4.57h for OS/2 to a 
native Linux Notes release avoiding a non native solution, like you 
mentioned, wine or similar !? 

Currently I am playing with Evolution find it quite nice and somewhat 
similar I am used in Notes already ...
... but past 10 years have filled my old thinktank and I try not to lose
it!?

The proprietary of Notes NSF files isn't that bad: Till now I was able
to 
acess from different OS's too ;-)

Well, the difficulty may more be: How is recognition from very old 4.5x 
to the present newer releases ???

Being well prepared I would give a try with a backup from the existing
one ;-))

Hope to get more definite feedback soon !?

Cheers, svobi