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Lotus Notes and Push Email- possible ?

Hi Guys
Long time lurker who has lusted after the X1 for quite some time.
I am persuading work to buy me one over the Blackberry that they prefer to supply us.
However I need demonstrate to them that I can receive emails whilst out and about . Trouble is we use Lotus Notes at work.
Will something like Commontime mNotes do the trick and is it possible to do what I want ? (receive emails from my lotus notes work server whilst out and about on the road)
In case it is relevant I am on Optus in Australia.
Cheers for reading.

You can use blackberry client for windows mobile, it seems it works great. For my concern I use XTNDConnect PC to synchronize my X1 and Lotus Notes 6. Follow the link (sorry in french but you can easily translate it) : http://www.smartphonefrance.info/actu.asp?ID=4877
If you have problems for translation : ask me
Ludovic

I am using Lotus Traveler, which a free application from Notes to sync your mail, your tasks, your contacts, even notes (the notes are within your mail template allready but not directly accessable, our notes IT guy changeed the standard mail template a little but - was a 5min hack - and schwupdiwup I have now notes) are possible.
It works quite well, previoulsy I had also xtnd connect but now not any more.
BUT: You have to set up a seperate server who is running this Traveller application in your company.
It is working also like push mail (realy within a minute or so) but than this is sucking the battery very quickly, so I am just "kicking" it from time to time to retrieve my mails.
You need to install a cab file on your phone do the setup and than it works.
In the futere I have heard it should be alos available for Symbian and iPhone but so far since 1 year only WM is availalbe.
Best regards
dingolino

Happy New Year all
Thanks for the replies and suggestions.
So, the good news appears to be I can set up the Xperia to receive emails on a regular basis whilst out and about like a Blackberry would ?
Time to start the work negotiations !

Exchange integration

Hi
What is the exchange integration like on the tab? Does it do calendar integration like on the iPad with full options to accepts meeting requests etc?
Also, can it open word and excel docs from email and are there options for editing?
Thanks

firedup said:
Hi
What is the exchange integration like on the tab? Does it do calendar integration like on the iPad with full options to accepts meeting requests etc?
Also, can it open word and excel docs from email and are there options for editing?
Thanks
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Yes to the first question. And as for the second one, there is ThinkFree Office installed on the Tab out of the box so you can at least open MS Office Documents. As for editing, I think you would require something like the paid version of ThinkFree or Documents To Go from Dataviz (which is what I use). Neither of those softwares are as great as Keynote, Numbers or Pages are on the iPad.

The version of Thinkfree that came on my UK spec Tab can create/edit documents. I guess this may differ from region to region.
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
The version of Thinkfree that came on my UK spec Tab can create/edit documents. I guess this may differ from region to region.
Regards,
Dave
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OK thanks guys.
How do you find the functionality of the ThinkFree? Is it adequate for creating and editing word and excel docs? This is really the dealbreaker for me.
Cheers

Just thought I'd post and say that the email client is the best if not on par with the HTC Mail client for use with Exchange. Its definitely the best looking too!

Calendar invites don't seem to work for me
I was just looking for any info/comments about exhange integration.
I've got a tab and have it set-up with my works Exchange server. Email/Calendar seems to work fine but I see no way of accepting new calendar invites. I can do this on my Desire just fine though.
Am I being a total moron or have others also noticed this?
Mike

There's no need to reply to this question as I found another thread further along and this seems to be a Android<>Exchange issue and not me being a moron. I recall reading just before I got my HTC Desire that HTC had done some extra work on exchange integration and I guess calendar invites was one example. Hey ho - hopefully it will work in the future but in the meantime the 7" screen on the tab means it's easy enough to log in to webmail and accept the occasional invites.
I still love the tab.

I've been testing it for about 2 weeks ...
ThinkFree office suite allows you to create/edit/review xls, doc files.
Works well. PDF viewing is better than Adobe Acrobat reader ... (faster).
About Exchange integration, IMHO it is there but it remains a bit light ...
It supports :
- Multiple Exchange email accounts with push mail (both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007).
- Multiple Exchange Calendars sync & display (display merge feature is there)
But ...
- Meeting requests buttons ... Accept/ Reject / ... are not there. (known issue ?)
- New meetings or updates added to main Exchange calendar - using your own main account - are seen by other clients for the very same Exchange account (OWA, WiMo, ...) as they were sent by someone else.
- Meeting "Busy/Temporary/Out of office" status cannot be set from Tab UI.
- Meeting "Busy/Temporary/Out of office" status are not displayed.
- Contacts only from the main Exchange account are accessible. Contacts from other Exchange accounts are synced, but cannot be seen.
HTC Desire HD (and Z) Exchange integration is better than the one provided with Galaxy Tab... Let's hope we'll get an update with next firmware.
Appart from all that, Galaxy Tab is a delight to work with ...

cant view folders on the tab
in addition to the inbox, i cant see the sub folders i created in my outlook and the mails routed to these folders dont show up on the tab..The Ipad & Iphone pushes mails even in the subfolders...need some help !!

When I click on the word Inbox next to the exchange server name, I get a drop down list of all the other subfolders to sync them as well, but by default it doesn't load them.
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I miss the swipe friendly folder tabs on the Galaxy S, but the dropdown box ain't bad.
I actually think in many ways the Galaxy series has better Exchange support than Windows Phone 7. Really.
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Croak said:
I actually think in many ways the Galaxy series has better Exchange support than Windows Phone 7. Really.
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Why?
Just got my tab for a few days and just found out that the Galaxy Tab's email client has no way to accept invitations.
This is a very basic exchange functionality working on most other Android Phones.
I do like the GUI though, but this is unforgivable as it is a basic Android 2.2 feature. As is tagging appointments as for example "private", which is also not possible with the Galaxy Tab's Agenda application.

Hi
What you could try to do is to look at what date the invitation concerns and then open up your calender and go to that date and you should be able to accept/decline the invitation.
/Marcus
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With exchange access on my (personal) mobile, my company also has the possibility to wipe out my mobile (company policy). Is there a way I could limit this wipe to only affect all the exchange data? I don't mind that in the worst case when they do a wipe, all my exchange data is unavailable (makes sense), but I don't want to lose all my personal apps/data/pictures/etc. as well... (Is this possibly different per exchange client?)

Touchdown handles more complex Exchange integration including client certificates, "device" encryption, PIN code access etc. The good thing about it is that it creates its own encryption and pin locking zone so that it doesn't affect your whole device. On data wipe etc, it only affects the exchange area.

Lotus Notes Traveler

There is evidently an issue with connecting to a Lotus Notes Traveler server to install the client on the Honeycomb devices.
When attempting to login, I received an error message of Error 500: HTTP Web Server: Invalid POST Request Exception.
I found a solution at Android Central on their Xoom forum, which seems to have worked for me.
You need to install the Firefox browser to be able to access the Notes Traveler to login and download the installer. Both the default and Dolphin browsers gave me the error message above, but the Firefox browser worked.

Additional Lotus Traveler functionality update - Contact Look-Ups work fine, but the calendar and email fail to sync (brings it right up to speed with the Playbook).
IBM has posted a fix, information can be found at https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO57889

I'm getting my Notes Traveler emails synced ok on my Iconia Tab A500. Calendar seems to sync too, but the week view just shows dark boxes without text for my appointments. The agenda view and the Day view work ok though.

I installed and configured traveler with no issues using dolphin HD. I have not seen any issues, though I have not changed my cal view from agenda so I cant talk about that issue. I think a lot of the issues being seen may be due to the back end of traveler, and not issues with the android OS or with the tablet (and lets face it, when traveler added android support, there was no display that could show anything else other than boxes for the month view!! )
I am still waiting very patiently for someone to release a widget for calendar for any flavor of android. I have traveler set up on my phone and my iconia, but I still have no calendar widget!!!!!!!!!!

No "Tasks" app :(

For some reason, Samsung excluded the "Tasks" app that is on the Galaxy S II. I use Outlook tasks that are synched via the Tasks app to my SGS II but I was surprised to see it missing on the GT 7.7
I tried installing it from a Titanium Backup of my GS II but no luck -- perhaps there is a way to do it via a File Manager but I would need to know exactly which files to copy and where they go.
I own a copy of Touchdown for Tablets (from my very brief time with a Xoom last year) but I like the stock Email and Calendar apps from Samsung for Exchange mail/calendar and would like the Sammy Tasks app!
Look forward to someone else figuring this out!

Found this:
https://market.android.com/details?...#?purchaseButton=wtoTD5fXw_r6C-JOXXWg4819N5U=
Could not get it set up with my Exchange Account

RTM
Personally, I prefer not to be tied down to any specific platform, so I use Remember The Milk.
They have an app for almost any platform - including Android and a plugin for Outlook called MilkSync. I think that might help in your case too
But I have to say - it's not free!
You can use it for free, but with some limitations - one of which is that the MilkSync plugin isn't available.
(I still don't have enough posts to add the external links, but it's easy to find - just search for "Remember The Milk")

^ I'm not a Google Apps kinda guy - I use Exchange for all my cloud data (email, contacts, calendar, tasks). The only thing I've left behind is notes, only because there's really no Exchange notes sync app for Android (again other than Touchdown which I would prefer not to use) so I'm using Evernote there which is fine.

[Q] problems with calendar invitations in mail client

I've recently updated my Galaxy S5 to Android 5.0 (stock rom!). So far all is working fine, with one exception: I've set up an active sync connection in the samsung mail client to our company-mailserver (Exchange 2013), and I can get all mails, calender, contacts and so on... but when I receive a calendar-invitation I cannot open it! I also cannot open accept-notifications in my inbox on Android (from calendar-invitations which I've send out using Outlook on my PC). This is very bad for me, and so far the only bug I've found in my device. Just to be complete: I've used Touchdown as mailclient on Android in the last couple of years, and I've decided to switch to the stock-mailclient because of the clean interface in material-design here - in comparisation the interface of Touchdown is "historical".
can anyone help me out with my problem?
many thanks
Gerald

Hi Gerald,
did you ever solve this issue? I am facing the same problem with lollipop galaxy s5 device on exchange 2007 and 2p13
thanks
Andy