If you do not pass the password during the "initialization", Lotus Notes will prompt for it which is what I do for one of my apps. If the User already has Lotus open and is logged in, there will be no password prompt.

Like Richard, I mainly do this with the e-mail stuff, but have used the ODBC driver for querying various "tables" in Notes.

>I personally do not use Lotus Notes (have seen it) and hope I do not have to use it. We are NOT using it for email, but rather to track project activity. I have asked if it is possible to read the contents entered into a Lotus Notes record and extract it out to be manipulated elsewhere. Anyway, definetely not using any email capability at all.
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>>We use it here for its e-mail capabilities. I suggest loading the client and the Domino Designer development package so you can look at the docs on the Domino objects. These objects allow you to use the Domino database without having the client UI completely loaded. The Lotus objects require that the user have already opened the Lotus Notes UI and logged in.
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>>>I am not there yet, but soon I will be asked to use Visual FoxPro 9 to connec to Lotus Notes and extract some information from that product.
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>>>Has anyone connected to Lotus Notes using VFP? If so, can you provide some insights on how to approach this along with some code samples?