NÔÔB here with really basic novice questions . .

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Hello everyone, first post and thank you IBM for what I hope will be a long relationship. My name’s Issy and I’m going to be hosting a number of websites over the next ten years, the most important of which will be a commercial health insurance site. My decision to get Lotus Notes anticipates (however naïvely) my intention to expand my businesses and one day have employees.

But there’s just little old me right now, and so I’ve got some very basic questions related to migrating to Lotus Notes:

Firstly, can Lotus Notes import from MBOX (or some other) data? It won’t be the end of the world if it can’t; I’m boldly going forward with or without the stored messages in my current email software on my hard disk.

Secondly, do you have any tips for how I should begin using LN given the following profile.

I’m on a single ISP connection with numerous email addresses, attached to the different websites I now have hosted. I don’t want the login name for my ISP account to show up when I send messages, and currently what I do is populate every field but the OUTGOING field for each email account with the email I want to appear to the client. Thus, smtp.myactualisp.com + port 25 is what I put in for the OUTGOING setting for each email account. Any tips on how I should be setting up these accounts?

Next, I thought that a Stationery layout I had saved would go through properly when I sent my first test email. The tiled background didn’t show up when I received it through my existing email software, only the text. Am I misinterpreting what Stationery means? Is it not inline HTML but something else?

And lastly, could you recommend some (physical) NÔÔB books for someone not yet using the product as Groupware, but only just getting started on one standalone desktop . . . with a lot of website accounts to manage?

Thanks everyone. My apologies if my questions are too sophomoric for this forum but . . . we all have to start somewhere! lol

Issy

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Subject: Welcome!

Hello Izzy and welcome to the forums!

I recommend going to www.redbooks.ibm.com. There you have a lot of books you can download (Not only of Domino) with a lot of tips.

For the migration of MBOX, well I am not familiar with that but while you can migrate from Outlook, it could be difficult to migrate from that. I think you are better off enabling IMAP in that account, then create an Outlook Express profile, and then migrate that. You could also add the account in the Notes Client but I am not sure how it works.

About the deployment. It really depends on how are you going to manage all those accounts. If you will have several websites, you need to use Internet Sites. That is the best.

Hiding the SMTP wont be easy since you need the MX to connect to your domains. I recommend creating a separate MX for each one, then you can simply point it to the same IP address.

Hope it helps. There are a lot of info in this forum. Also, the Domino 6/7 has more information that is relevant to the new version and it has many more posts.

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Subject: Thanks for the warm welcome!

You’ll have to forgive me but (blush) I work on my screen so much that any opportunity to avoid digital reading is appreciated lol. I’m going to hunt down some books on my library’s LIST+ connection to help me out here. I’m so relieved that I’m not such a novice I’ve landed in the wrong place to ask these kinds of beginner questions lol. But yeah – books for this girl (if possible). The kind made out of paper. :wink:

Issy