randy said:
Hi Gary,
No Mail Icon in the Control Panel of XP. If there was an
icon we would need to associate Lotus Notes as the mail
client without using HTTP or POP3. The Notes servers are
on an intranet and accessed via DNS or IP. We really need
to get the workgroup functionality up and running.
Suggestions?
Randy,
I think the setting for "default" email client is most easily set via
Internet Explorer. Menu: Internet Options, Tabs: Programs.
That being said, perhaps a little explanation of the nomenclature will
help you in figuring all this out.
* IP - Internet Packets ... in common use the term IP usually is
associated with "IP Address" which takes on the form of 193.45.67.121 or
something like that. It's the unique network address for the machine.
Other than the machine need to have a network address to receive mail
via the network, it has nothing to do with mail.
* DNS - Domain Name Server (or Service) ... a set of processes,
services, and servers which translates "names" for servers, e.g.
www.microsoft.com (which people understand) into IP addresses (which
people understand). Doesn't really have anything to do with mail except
that you send mail to these names (rather than IP addresses and DNS is
used in part of the translation process).
* HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol ... defines the exchange of data
between the files on web servers, and web browsers.
* POP3 - Post Office Protocol (Version 3). defines the exchange data to
transfer mail between mail server and mail client.
* IMAP - another mail transfer protocol between mail server and mail client
* SMTP - another mail transfer protocol for sending and receiving mail;
mail going between servers on the Internet almost always use SMTP, and
outgoing mail from clients to servers often does.
* Lotus Notes (as does Microsoft Exchange) has additional proprietary
protocols special to these products.
All of the above have very little to do with making Notes and Project
work together. I mention it all because you are looking in these
directions to solve your problem and I hope by better understanding of
above you won't be looking so hard in these directions.
Dave mentioned that Project and Lotus Notes don't really work well
together; as well as Project and Microsoft Outlook works. That's true.
Microsoft probably didn't give Lotus Notes much thought ... other than
to decide to pay little any attention to it. Microsoft Project does pay
attention to MAPI (Microsoft's protocol for email clients); but Lotus
Notes pays little or no attention to Microsoft's MAPI. Lotus Notes,
like Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, tries to be it's own world and has it's
own proprietary peculiarities.
To temper your expectations ... Lotus Notes will probably never work in
Project as well as Outlook will. From my experience, if you can get it
to respond as a MAPI client you can make do some basic things, but the
full functionality you may expect just won't be there. I haven't yet
seen Project 2003, but I doubt any changes have been made.
