
Considering that Notes is used by so many companies, the amount of help resources online is surprisingly few.Īfter much searching, I found the answer though on a vaguely worded post on IBM’s Lotus Notes forums that was over 3-years old. Anyone who has to help maintain Lotus Notes knows my pain. Someone at work had this issue and I felt like banging my head against the wall trying to find a resolution. Open Lotus Notes, Edit your ONLINE location (You can do it, Goto Internet Browser, Select Other, and then browse it to chrome file location exampleĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exeįixing Lotus Notes so the inbox opens by defaultĮver opened up your mailbox in Lotus Notes and for some reason it opens up by default one of your sub-folders instead of your inbox? Make sure to set default browser for the system in default apps.

To set Lotus Notes as default email client, Open Notes Client click on Set Lotus Notes as Default Mail Client in 8.5.x series (Block *.exe OR *.pif OR *.com) the mail rule will block any mails that have anyone of the file extensions specified. ( Block *.exe AND *.pif AND *.com) the rule will block only mails that have these 3 files in the same time. Make sure if you are checking for different types of attachments that you use OR and not AND to build your list of rules. Look for folder name starting with “ notesxxxxx” this folder contains all the temporary files.īlock extensions with Domino server builtin configuration … Lotus Notes TEMP location for opened saved filesĪnd press ENTER. Choose “Automatic” and complete the process.Select Actions – Folder – Upgrade folder design.Now start Lotus notes, and it will start the configuration wizard.Ĭannot find external name: NAMESORTVIEWPO

In new lotus notes version starting from 8.5.3, there is no need for ID file, it auto copy from the server Reconfigure Lotus Notes Client (Old installation)Ĭlose Lotus Notes & rename the Lotus folder following located at Open old mail boxes and copy (valid) held messages into new one …. Move mail1.box & mail2.box out of notes data dir via OS file explorer # Move mail boxes files (I had 2 mailbox to hold more mails) & enter, now goto APPDATA, Local, Lotus, Notes, Data, & here you can see user.id file.įrom domino administrator console issue following C:\Users\XXXXUSERXXX\AppData\Local\Lotus\Notes\Data.Sometimes when we RESET user Lotus notes password on domino server, we have to delete user.id file on user computer so that he can login instantly using new password.


Following are some short notes for personal reference. We are using IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 / FP6 (Yep its decade old version, but we are still using it).
