It's Lotus Notes email, Jim, but not as we know it ...

During a recent project, we came across a requirement to provide access to a user's email on a portal page, without using the normal iNotes ( Domino Web Access ) or POP/IMAP mail portlets.

Not sure what led me to this, but I thought ... I wonder whether Domino has some kind of Atom/RSS syndication mechanism ? And, guess what, it does ....

I added the following lines to the NOTES.INI file on the Domino server: -

iNotes_WA_Feeds=rss,atom

iNotes_WA_FeedsSecured=0

iNotes_WA_FeedsProtocol=http

iNotes_WA_DisableForceBasicAuthForFeeds=1

and restarted Domino ( although I probably could have simply reloaded the HTTP task via TELL HTTP RESTART ).

Lo and behold, I can now subscribe to my inbox via the URL: -

http://stargate.uk.ibm.com/mail/padmin.nsf/iNotes/Proxy/?openDocument&Form=s_Atom&NKA

or: -

http://stargate.uk.ibm.com/mail/padmin.nsf/iNotes/Proxy/?openDocument&Form=s_RSS&NKA

which results in this: -

http://www.davehay.f2s.com/iNotes/capture_27082009_135358.jpg

and this: -

http://www.davehay.f2s.com/iNotes/capture_27082009_140039.jpg

either of which lead me back to this: -

http://www.davehay.f2s.com/iNotes/capture_27082009_135408.jpg