Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Messaging: the Common PIM portlets
The portal provides two Common PIM (Personal Information Management) portlets: Common Mail and 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 Express 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 Notes® calendars 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 more information, see Domino Integration portlets under Related reference.
Overview of information:
- Using 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. - Using 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. - Using the Common Mail portlet with IMAP
The Common Mail portlet can connect to any type of mail server over the IMAP4 protocol. - Using the Common Mail portlet with POP
The Common Mail portlet can connect to a Domino, Exchange, or Yahoo mail server over the POP3 protocol. - Enabling or disabling Spell Checker in Common Mail
The Spell Checker function is automatically installed with WebSphere Portal Express and is enabled by default after installation. - Enabling 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. - Setting 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 Express servers, the WSRP Producer and the WSRP Consumer. - Common PIM portlets reference
Parent topic:
Installed portletsRelated concepts
Lotus Domino Integration Lotus Notes View
Related tasks
Customizing Collaborative Services user credentials for eTrust SiteMinder