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Integrate Lotus Domino applications and mail

Integrate Lotus Domino mail with WebSphere Portal enables users to manage their e-mail from the portal. You can configure e-mail integration whether you are using the Lotus Domino LDAP server or if you are using a different LDAP server for portal authentication. Regardless of the LDAP that portal uses to authenticate, set up single sign-on. The procedure to configure single-sign is the same for either configuration and is included in this section.

There are two e-mail integration environments, WebSphere Portal is configured to use Lotus Domino or WebSphere Portal is not configured to use Lotus Domino as the LDAP server.

If WebSphere Portal is configured to use Lotus Domino, the following occurs:

If WebSphere Portal is configured to use another supported LDAP server, other than Domino, the following occurs:

To integrate e-mail into the portal, first configure single sign-on and then configure the e-mail integration. There are two procedures for e-mail integration, one for when portal is configured to use Lotus Domino and another for when portal is configured to use a different LDAP server.

  1. Configure single sign-on between WebSphere Portal and Lotus Domino

    You configure the single sign-on (SSO) feature between the WebSphere Portal server and the Lotus Domino servers so that authentication works the same way for all Lotus Domino and Extended Products Portlets. A user can log in to WebSphere Portal and then access portlets that contain information from a Lotus Domino application or service without having to enter additional credentials for authentication.

  2. Configure e-mail integration

    When configuring WebSphere Portal integration with a Domino mail file, you have a few options in the portlets that you choose – the Domino Web Access portlet or the Notes View portlet which uses the portlet type MyMail, MyInbox, or MyCalendar. With both portlets, you can configure collaborative services to automatically detect the user's mail file.

  3. Configure server, database, and view pickers

    Administrators can choose whether to let users select from the server, database, and view pickers when they work with the Domino Web Access portlet or the Notes View portlet. Access to the pickers gives users some additional flexibility but is not required for the portlets to work. Keep in mind that point Collaborative Services to a Domino LDAP server for the database picker to work, and that the view picker requires an HTTP connection, so ensure that single sign-on works.


Parent topic:

Integrate with collaboration software