Messaging: The Common PIM portlets

 

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The portal provides two Common Personal Information Management (PIM) portlets:

  • Common Mail
  • Common Calendar

The Common PIM portlets allow administrators to configure them for different back-end systems and protocols.

These portlets are found on the Welcome > Messaging page.

  • Common Mail allows users to send and receive mail using IMAP, IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange, and POP3 servers. In addition to basic mail support, the portlet also supports features such as an inline rich text editor for message creation and editing, a spell checker, and the ability to save attachments to the WebSphere Portal Document Manager.

  • Common Calendar allows users to schedule calendar entries such as appointments, meetings, and events, using rich text and attachments. Users can access and work with IBM Lotus Notescalendars on Lotus Domino servers, or with Microsoft Outlook calendars on Exchange servers.

The Welcome > Messaging page also describes two of the Domino Integration portlets that can be used for messaging. For

  1. Use the Common PIM portlets with Domino

    When IBM Lotus Domino is the back-end mail system, the Common PIM (Personal Information Management) portlets use Lotus Collaborative Services, which can query the Lotus Domino LDAP directory to get the user's mail file and server and use single sign-on (SSO) to log the user into the mail server automatically.

  2. Use the Common PIM portlets with Exchange

    The Common PIM (Personal Information Management) portlets - Common Mail and Common Calendar - can connect to a Microsoft Exchange server using the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. A user provides the necessary configuration information through the portlets' preferences pages, and a portlet adapter communicates with Exchange to retrieve the user's mail or calendar information.

  3. Use the Common Mail portlet with IMAP

    The Common Mail portlet can connect to any type of mail server over the IMAP4 protocol.

  4. Use the Common Mail portlet with POP

    The Common Mail portlet can connect to a Domino, Exchange, or Yahoo mail server over the POP3 protocol.

  5. Enable or disable Spell Checker in Common Mail

    The Spell Checker function is automatically installed with WebSphere Portal and is enabled by default after installation.

  6. Enable Common Calendar users to set regional preferences

    To enable users to set one or more of these preferences - time zone, preferred calendar type, first day of week, first day of work week - you enable the attributes on the Edit My Profile page so that they are available as preferences to users in their profiles.

  7. Set up the Common PIM portlets as remote portlets

    To set up one or both of the Common PIM (Personal Information Management) portlets–Common Mail and Common Calendar–for remote use, set up two WebSphere Portal servers, the WSRP Producer and the WSRP Consumer.

  8. Common PIM portlets reference

 

Parent topic:

Installed portlets

 

Related concepts

Lotus Domino Integration
Installed portlets
Lotus Notes View

 

Related tasks

Checklist of tasks: LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services
Customize Collaborative Services user credentials for eTrust SiteMinder

 

Related reference:

Domino Integration portlets
Policy settings for Mail