George,

Wow, thanks!

My network folks tell me that using Outlook through POP3 can corrupt the Notes database and I may lose my inbox if I try to send mail through Outlook against that account, though they say it's safe to download and read mail.

I'm using the R5 client. Gotta figure out how to skip that stupid opening page. They start you on a totally useless page and you have to click past it to get to the mailbox. If you figure out a way past this let me know for sure!


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>I hate Lotus Notes. So much so that I use Outlook on top of it. Unfortunately, there are times when I actually do have to use it. One of the things I hate most about it is the braindead log in dialog. In general I hate log in dialogs, and this one in particular. Unlike ccMail, there didn't seem to be anyway around having to deal with it...until now. Here's a VBScript file (requires the Windows Script Host, of course) that'll launch Notes and supply it with the password.

' Notes.vbs
>' Launch Lotus Notes and supply password
>
>Dim oShell
>Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>' Add the path to this
>oShell.Run "Notes.exe"
>' This may be overkill. It's milliseconds and you might
>' be able to reduce it
>WScript.Sleep 1000
>oShell.AppActivate "Lotus Notes"
>WScript.Sleep 100
>' Replace with your password, but leave the ~
>oShell.SendKeys "mypassword~"

I feel so much better now.:-)