I was looking around the LDD Domino R6 Forum today and I noticed somebody posting a message about a new anti-virus solution for notes.  Having a quick look at the site I saw the full product name and just had to blog about it…

So it seems that either IBM have sold Lotus Notes to Microsoft and told nobody or somebody just thinks that the word Microsoft goes in front of all brand names.

Soon we will have Microsoft DB2, Microsoft SameTime, Microsoft Websphere…

Update 12/02/2003 : Microsoft Lotus Notes is no longer.  The website has been updated and the name Microsoft has been dropped.  Still just goes to show how conditioned some people are into typing ‘Microsoft’ in front of any software title.

Once I had managed to get Hotmail working from my Lotus Notes client the other day I decided to get all my other pop3 accounts up and running also, however I ran into a little problem…

For each POP3 account you set up in your personal address book Lotus Notes creates a ‘Get Internet Email’ entry in the replicator page, or so you think it should.  If you have two or more POP3 accounts on the same POP3 server then it only creates a single entry on the replicator page and therefore only checks for mail on one of your accounts.

My work around? I created an entry in the hosts file for each account on the same POP3 server and pointed each entry to the ip address of the actual server that way each of the entries in the personal address book have a different ‘servername’ and domino creates multiple entries on the replicator page.

On, and to put the icing on the cake the Lotus support site says that there is no problem with multiple pop3 accounts on a single server and that the client is working as expected…

Want to use your notes client to access to Hotmail?  With the help of Web2POP now you can.

Once installed Web2POP acts like a mini pop3 server running on your own machine.  You then point the domino POP3 account to localhost and pass in your username and password.  Web2POP then goes off, gets the messages via HTTP and then passes the info back to domino via the POP3 protocol.  It supports Hotmail, Yahoo and a host of other web based mail systems.

Web2POP is fairly cost effective, a personal license costs less then 20 euro.  I think I’ll be sending off my registration fairly soon and finally get rid of Outlook Express.