Hi Larry,

Knowing you had some Notes experience, I was hoping you'd reply.

>First off, my condolences on getting switched without any warning. When I went to Notes years ago, it was from ccMail so the switch was a little easier.

It wouldn't have been so bad if they had let me know that I was switched. I just came back to work last Weds., and couldn't send or receive any emails. I knew that there had been some problems. Finally, on Friday I contacted the guy
that did net admin and ccMail for our group before IT (Lack-of) Services took him away (more on this later). It wasn't until yesterday that I finally got my email back. In the meantime, BTW, I know that at least one email message ended up in bit never-never land. It was one I sent to myself as a test. How many more were lost, I have no idea. Further, since the only thing I've had incoming was a test I sent from myself here to myself here, I have no idea if the bloody thing is set up right or not.

>>When you press a key, you get a random number of Xs. So the first part of this is: Does anyone know how to bypass the thing? In ccMail (and in Outlook) I could supply my user name and password as command line parameters. Before I go searching for the answer in what passes for help there, does anyone know how to accomplish this in Notes?
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>I believe the reaons for this is because Notes is supposed to be C2 certified (not sure but it sounds impressive -- yeah right). Anyway, it discards any keystrokes in the buffer. Notes does offer an NT integration option that will bounce your NT username and password against the ones stored in your ID file. That's the best I think you can do without writing your own integration stuff in C++ or VB using the VIM libraries.

Unfortunately, we're not to Win2K yet. We're supposed to be going that way, but then, almost every one is still running Win95B and didn't switch to that from 3.1 until about 2 1/2 years ago. In short, I'm not holding my breath.

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>Also for some reason, I get prompted now and again to re-supply the password. It's made me so angry that I've forgotten to note (no pun intended) the circumstances.
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>This happens at many points:
>1. Accesing the server for the first time.
>2. Accessing the ID itself. It verifies you are you before showing you the information.
>3. Automatic ID lockout. Under File - Tools - User Preferences, there is an option to lockout the ID file after some period of inactivity. Whenever the ID is locked, you must type in your password to unlock it.

Thanks for the heads up here. I had noticed some of these.

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>Regarding the rest of your rant, I would ask the Notes adminsitrator if they have already or will load the POP server add-on to the Notes server. Notes can act as a normal POP3 server. if they do this, you can use your Outlook 2000 to access it and most (if not all) of your headaches would go away.
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Getting IT (Lack-of) Services to do something like this would probably require an act of congress. Besides, I'm one of their least favorite people (I don't know why, either. I wouldn't think that my calling them boneheads at the smallest provovation would have anything to do with it, but you never know).

They really like to be in charge and here's an example. I mentioned earlier that our group once had a member who served as Net Admin for the division. Then we commited a cardinal sin and they took him away from us. The sin was that we asked him (and he complied) to set us up an NT Server (we're mostly Novell) so we could go to SQL Server from Sybase. Never mind that they have a bunch of NT boxes for the same purpose. Boneheads!