About automatic detection of mail files

 

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Messaging portlets are configured by default to detect a user's source mail file (a Notes database) based on the identity with which the user signs into the portal. The LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services, and Single Sign-On configuration for the portal site, are requirements to support this feature.

The messaging portlets that use automatic detection are:

  • Lotus Notes View
  • Domino Web Access
  • Common Mail or Common Calendar (when set to use Domino as a back-end messaging server)

In all cases described below, the automatic detection feature requires that the portal site is configured for multi-server Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication

Automatic detection when both the portal and Collaborative Services authenticate to a IBM Lotus Domino LDAP

Automatic detection works by default in these portlets when both directories are Lotus Domino LDAP, or the same Lotus Domino LDAP directory.

Automatic detection when the portal authenticates to an LDAP directory that is not Lotus Domino, and Collaborative Services authenticate to a Lotus Domino LDAP

This case requires the following tasks:

  • Extend the LDAP schema on the Lotus Domino LDAP directory that is not Lotus Domino, by adding the following attributes:

    mailserver=mailserver.domain.com mailfile=mail/usermail.nsf 

    The forward slash in the specification for the mailfile attribute is required.

  • On the Lotus Domino LDAP directory, take one of the following actions:

    • Extend the schema as above.

    • If the organization prefers not to extend the schema, populate the directory with a separate Person document for each user. The document must specify the name the person uses for logging in to the portal in either the Short Name or Common Name field. We can run an agent to create the documents.

  • In addition, if you use the Common PIM portlets, modify the CSEnvironment.properties file on the portal server to include filters that will work for both the Common PIM portlets and theDomino and Extended Products Portlets, if the site uses both. Follow the procedure in Supporting automatic mail detection with an LDAP directory other than Lotus Domino. If you use only the Domino and Extended Products Portlets portlets such as Domino Web Access or Lotus Notes View, these filters are unnecessary.

Automatic detection when both the portal and Collaborative Services authenticate to an LDAP directory that is not Lotus Domino

Automatic detection also works when neither directory is a Lotus Domino LDAP, but extend the schema in both directories as described above.

 

Parent Topic

Integrate the Lotus Domino servers and portlets

 

Related tasks


Checklist of tasks: LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services
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