kcmatt

(This info was reqeusted in the One Handed Dialing Thread)

My company "requires" us to use Lotus Notes and I hate it. We used to use Outlook and switched a few years ago (to save $ I guess???). Anyway, our IT dept had me start using mnotes, and I tried using Notes for email, calendar, contacts, etc. This didn't last long, and I soon went back to Outlook for everything except email, and USB synced with ActivSync.

So when I worked on my company laptop, the first thing I'd do was start up Lotus Notes for my email, then have Outlook running alongside it for my Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes. Just having Notes running seemed to slow down my laptop to a crawl, and it's not real user-friendly either. I had my emails sent to my Tilt through the POP3 setup, but this sucked because every time it checked for new emails, it would keep alerting me until I checked the email. If I had it check every 15 minutes, my phone would vibrate every 15 minutes until I read the email. Also, it would not wake up from standby to check for new emails either. So every time I would pull my phone out to make a call, here come all my new emails. Very frustrating.

Enter Sherweb. I was looking into the possibilities of a hosted Exchange server, and heard of someone using it on xda-developers.com. Then Chris Leckness mentioned he used Sherweb too, so I looked into it. Basically, for $8.95 a month I get Microsoft Exchange hosting. This allows my Tilt to have the Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks synced wirelessly in real-time with my work laptop and also my personal desktop. Very nice. They also give you Outlook 2007 to put on as many computers as you use, which is a nice bonus.

Now here's the "crafty" part. I talked to our IT department to try and figure out how to get my work emails on board, too (this was actually my initial reason for looking into this). They said that everyone is "supposed" to use Lotus Notes, but I finally got one of them to tell me how to have my emails forwarded, and it was really easy. (Sorry if this is basic, but I was excited to figure out I could do this). In Lotus Notes, you go under Actions>Tools>Mail Rules and click New Rules, then create the rule that "All Documents" "Send copy to" my new email address with Sherweb (xxxxx@ihostexchange.net). I have my real work email address set up as an alias with the Sherweb email, so nothing looks different to people getting emails from me.

Now all my incoming emails are instantly forwarded to my email with Sherweb, and are then instantly pushed to my Tilt (another great feature) and Outlook on my laptop. I don't even have to start up Lotus Notes at all!!! Now this is what Windows Mobile was made for! Push email, in HTML, and I hardly ever need to USB ActiveSync with my laptop! (just for the Files and Notes)

agh3, if you have an Exchange Server that is just sitting there, I highly recommend using it! You're right, Activsync will be MUCH easier.

Anyway, that's my setup. If anyone knows of anything I'm not doing that would make things even easier (like a way to sync Notes and Files wirelessly, or a less expensive method) then let me know!

radimus

I've been really considering getting hosted exchange for my personal domain (for my personal acct) instead of the ldap acct I use there now @ 1&1 Internet Inc. - Web Hosting Services and Domain Name Registration

But then I couldn't sync my work and personal schedule and contacts

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srhawkins

My work uses L.N. for e-mail and schedule (meetings). We also have Outlook 2003 loaded as part as office, that we don't use. I copy over my meetings into Outlook schedule and Activesync my Tilt. I have tried the Outlook/ Lotus Notes connector with no luck. Is there a easier way? I'm willing to invest in a new sync tool but don't know which one might work with Notes. Any recomendations?

ewingr

I use mNotes as the first poster mentioned,and am very happy with it. I used it for 3 years before this on my Palm.

rcaban

There's a trial available. It works fine, all calendar, to do, contacts. I downloaded the trial. Cannot recall the web site but if you google it, you'll find it.